ICONOSTASIS OF THE STORY IN DELTA NOVEL BY GORAN PETROVIĆ
ICONOSTASIS OF THE STORY IN DELTA NOVEL BY GORAN PETROVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: Before Papir sa vodenim znakom (Paper with a Watermark) (Laguna, 2022) and Ikonostas sveg poznatog sveta (Iconostasis of the Entire Known World) (Laguna, 2022), the first two courses of contrapuntal segments of the symphonic literary project Delta Novel by Goran Petrović, there is an intriguingly inexhaustible hermeneutic anticipation. This anticipation ranges from recognizing the proximity of intertwined poetic dialogues with predecessors, the choice of Pešić’s architectural (de)construction of mythological spaces, or Pavić’s freedom of stretching the recipient’s traces through historiographical-metafictional imagination, to the revelation of the essence of each reader’s desire for what literature should mean in the modern world. The dedication of the creative endeavor towards the meticulous expression of the boundless text, in the branching metamorphoses of what lies between Paper and Iconostasis, already sketched as the merit and future modes of story transformation, unfolds in the longings of readerly anticipations through the weaving of literary symbolism of duration “[f]rom here, as far as one desires” (Iconostasis of the Entire Known World, 6), with enriched insights into how the farsightedness of words can encompass everything “[i]n width and height” (Iconostasis of the Entire Known World, 58), in the realization of the continuous endeavor to precisely, through such setups of unceasing interpretations of meaning, establish how “[it] would be good to know where we stand” (Iconostasis of the Entire Known World, 162).

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