A book about a woman, about Boka, about the world. “By surviving I win.” – Marcus Aurelius The poem about three worlds is led by a great and brave imagination. It makes a broad cultural impact, from the Baroque era – the era of early enlightenment, mass slavery and the construction of the world system, all the way to Napoleon’s conquest of Perast. Vladimir Pistalo has a rare gift for understanding other cultures. He sings history. This is the story of Europe, Africa and America. About Venice, Tunis and Salem. About fires and skirts. About the passage of time. About music. About galliots and seagulls. About pirates under state protection. About madness, about witches. Of savages and lace collars. About the empire. About masters and teachers. This is an anti-colonial novel. The Venetians did not suffer the consequences of their actions. There was no sun if they say it is not there and the moon changed with their mind. We had to adapt our knowledge to other people’s ignorance of ourselves. Cynical naivety was our refuge. This is a saga about being thrown into existence. About universality. About particularity. All around Cyclops proclaimed the testimonies of their one eye. I was Saint Sebastian. Instead of arrows on my body, my eyes opened. I saw the other side of everything. The song about the three worlds restores the voice of a woman who was expelled from history. Serbian literature does not have a heroine with whom it is so easy to identify as Ozana Bolica. I was full of my life, a strange life without examples. I was supposed to be Penelope, but I was Odysseus. Did I invent my life like a certain gentleman who read a book and imagined he was a knight, so he went into the world with a barber’s court instead of a helmet? In the outside world, Ozana is a slave. In the inner world, she is curious, gifted, wise and sensual.

 

AWARDS:
• Prozart Award, 2024.
• Finalist for NIN Award.
• Finalist for Belgrade Victor Award.
• The 2023 Infinite Blue Circle Award.
• Dr. Spiro Matijević Award in 2023.
• Award Bora Stanković.
• Kapetan Miša Anastasijević