"Cyclops" is a book by Yugoslav and then Croatian writer Ranko Mariković that should be read when there is a real danger of fire. It was recently published by the Belgrade-based "Kontrast"
After twenty years, "Cyclops" by Ranko Marinković, a former Yugoslav and now Croatian writer, was published again in Serbia. It was published by "Kontrast" in the "Balkanon" library, one of the few Serbian publishers that publishes Croatian writers.
"Cyclops" is an important book and Ranko Marinković is a great writer.
Those who know why this is so, do not need to be convinced, and those who do not know, now have the opportunity to find out if they want to. Let's just remind that "Cyclops" won the Nino Prize by unanimous decision of the jury, which included (it's worth remembering these names): Miloš I. Bandić, Velibor Gligorić, Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz, Muharem Pervić, Eli Finci and Petar Džadzić.
In the preface, explaining why "Cyclops" can be important to the modern reader, Vladan Bajčeta states that "it can help him to more clearly articulate his own thoughts and feelings regarding the general situation in which the world finds himself, it can encourage him to reconsider the ethical and philosophical assumptions with which he measures reality and his own experience, can provide him with refuge in a comic cheerfulness that does not disappear from the earth even in moments of general civilizational eclipse."
Finally, says Bajčeta, "it can give it a superb aesthetic experience, because it is, above all, a great novel that is always, as one author close to Marinković says, "written only when the house is on fire". That is why it can be said that such novels are read when there is a real danger of fire."
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