Testamentarni grad Arsenija Njegovana

Abstract

The elementary questions concerning writing, art and architecture do not exist in the novel The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan. Terms and entities like town, people, being, house, street and baroque turn their historical faces towards the fundamental questions of theory and aesthetic of dissappearance. A novel about moving oneself towards the suppresion of history, revolution and change, turns into a novel about other type of move – in the sign of death. It’s symbols lie in multifunctional face of red, several corners of street where Arsenije placed his houses and existence, and in the language that can never become bequest and dialogue with long gone nephew Isidor. In multiple hidden signings of various types of city (Belgrade) lies as much as baroque and the (post)modern identity of the writer.