On Friday, August 16th at 9PM, at the “Poets’ Square” this year’s literary programme is to be continued, with Filip Grbić being the guest. He will present to the audience his third novel The Canon of a Depressed Mind.
Filip Grbić was born in Belgrade in 1984. He graduated Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. For his first novel, Ruminations on the Upcoming Catastrophe, he received the “Miloš Crnjanski” Award for the year 2016-2017. Having been rated by the professional jury of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts as the best prose work of 2018, his second novel Prelest received the “Branko Ćopić” Award and was also translated into French and Macedonian.
Mirko Jovanović said that in his first two novels, Filip Grbić had shown the capacity for integrating into one his broad extent of the classical knowledge, the deep insights into the contemporary society as well as the depictions of urban lifestyle of young people, falsely driven by passions and false expectations, and all that with the use of a compelling storyline. He asserted that the voices of the three different protagonists in this novel came into one with the use of a third-person narration. Jovanović also highlighted that although the narrator is sympathetic to the protagonists and their different personalities, what shone through and was common to all of them, was the feeling of depression and gloominess, whilst their destinies intertwined and led to the play’s boiling point. Jovanović concluded by saying that the novel The Canon of a Depressed Mind was there to stay.
The moderator for the evening is Igor Perišić, a literary theorist and critic.
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