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Dušan Šarotar

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Nicomachus Reports

Šarotar’s Nikomachus moves between poetry and prose, accompanied by his original photographs, approaching the invisible and the inexpressible.

“Everything has its own logos, language echoes within language; only silence is without translation.”

Dimensions: 13 × 20 cm
Year of publication: 2023
No. of pages: 80

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A unique book, a literary masterpiece sui generis. Rarely have I read a language so measured and serene, establishing such a distance of observation and narration, while also being so rich in meaning and emotionally charged to the extremes with energy and pain. The blending of times, even entire historical periods, is stunning, all with meticulous descriptions of sensorially vivid details. From the creation of the cosmos through billions of stars to the last drop of water wandering light-years away, from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the titular Nicomachus to the present day of tourism, refugees, and wars, consumption and the disintegration of the world, all the beauty and all the horror!

Only a great and pure soul can bear all this pain of history and express all this light of the wonders of existence. Nomen omen: Dušan.

– Boris A. Novak

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Dušan Šarotar (foto: Boštjan Pucelj)
Photo by Boštjan Pucelj

Dušan Šarotar

Dušan Šarotar (1968) is a writer, poet, translator, screenwriter and photographer. The central theme of his recent works is the fate of the Jewish community and the Holocaust in Prekmurje. His novels, Biljard v Dobrayu (Billiards at the Hotel Dobray), Panorama and Zvezdna karta (Star Chart) were all nominated for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year in Slovenia and translated into numerous languages. In 2023 he received the Župančič Award for his novel Zvezdna karta (Star Chart). The English editions of Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the novel Panorama was on the longlist for the 2018 Dublin Literary Award and received the Cesar-Lopez Cuadras Award in 2017. His poems and prose have been featured in Slovenian and foreign anthologies and translated into several languages. Šarotar is the author of numerous scripts for documentary and feature films and portraits of Slovenian artists. In 2012 Šarotar began developing and exhibiting his photographic series Duše (Souls). His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the Murska Sobota Gallery. His last work, Nicomachus Reports, is a mix of poetry and prose, exploring memory, sadness, feeling and the human soul, approached with a poetic of slowness, characterised by descriptions of nature, cities and a specific atmosphere in which the author places his protagonists.