OPENNESS AND STRUCTURE
OPENNESS AND STRUCTURE

Summary/Abstract: Encountering the first two parts of Goran Petrović’s novel Delta Novel, titled Papir sa vodenim znakom (Paper with a Watermark) and Ikonostas sveg poznatog sveta (Iconostasis of the Entire Known World) raises a multitude of questions for which I’m not certain if reasonably clear answers can be offered, whether it’s even necessary for uncertainty to provide them. Before us, we have two narrative texts that, among other elements, share an identical beginning. I quote it: If we have in mind the vastness of the world, then literature, everything that has been written so far, is merely a quote extracted in an attempt to explain the essence of humankind. A modest part of that quotation is Delta Novel, taken collectively and separately by its books. Only a man can be made of something that is not there, whether it is lost or never even existed. That’s why there are no quotes in this privileged place; it actually follows when you turn the page... A collective reading is not achievable because, for now, the entirety cannot be perceived, not even as an author’s concept. Unless the search for quotes leads us there.

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