Srećko Marijanović's new novel Topology of Shadows was presented in Mostar.
Mostar, April 13, 2025 – In the open reading room of the Croatian Society
of writers of Herceg-Bosnia is tonight in Mostar, at the Croatian House of Herceg
Stjepan Kosača, presented the novel Topology of Shadows by Srećko Marijanović. O
the novel was narrated by doc. Ph.D. sc. Tina Laco and prof. Ivan Baković, and the text was also read
Prof. Marija Pavković-Baković, who was unable to participate.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sc. Tina Laco, speaking about the novel, among other things, pointed out: "Without
Despite his pretentiousness, Srećko Marijanović is aware that he lives in a world that does not
it tolerates, does not allow and does not make possible a grandiose narrative. He is aware
consequently, that he does not write a classic novel and constantly reminds us by creating an anti-hero
readers that a classic novel should not even be expected. Circumstances and opportunities create
action, action makes the hero, and every hero – the author knows this very well – needs
a concrete counterforce. Of course, Marijanović relativizes this classically conceived
prose, not only because he lives in a time that relativizes everything anyway, but because
at the very beginning, it sets up a protagonist with an attitude, but no desire for action, with
ideas, but unachievable in his hard resignation."
"The topology of the shadow is an authentic stamp of contemporary Bosnian and Herzegovinian
literary production. The sharpness of sentences, the multiplied layers of meaning,
coherence of expression, stylistic uniformity, are mature literary methods that
the author maturely deals with the accumulated reality. I am sure that this book will
to leave an indelible, authentic mark on the dynamic literary stage," she wrote
is Prof. Marija Pavković-Baković.
The President of the DHK HB, Prof. Ivan Baković, particularly highlighted Marijanović's
way of constructing the story in which his characters in both novels, and in fact in three separate ones
stories (war in Bezimeni, love-criminal and socio-political in Topology
shadows) are drawn into some dramatic events that they did not ask for, but are
They are very much teaching and playing their assigned role.
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