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Panorama

Dušan Šarotar

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Leto izida

2014

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218

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978-961-284-043-3

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2014

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Pisatelj, nemara avtorjev alter ego, išče mir in navdih za pisanje na počasnem potovanju po deževni in megleni irski obali, od tam odpotuje v Belgijo in preko Ljubljane v Sarajevo; predvsem pa ga pot vodi vedno globlje v pokrajine lastne notranjosti. Pripoved je oblikovana kot asociativni tok misli, v katerem se časi, kraji in dogodki prelivajo v nenavadno zgodbo s številnimi pripovednimi glasovi. Čeprav vezi med njimi morda niso nemudoma očitne, se v skupni zgodbi ne znajdejo povsem slučajno. Med avtentičnimi pripovedovalci brez domovine tako izstopajo albanski šofer in priložnostni vodič Gjini, Američanka z irskimi koreninami Jane, emigrantska profesorica književnosti iz bivše Jugoslavije Spomenka, naključna poslušalka literarnega večera v Bruslju, sarajevski pesnik in še kdo. Njihove pripovedi izrisujejo panoramski pogled na iskanje tistega, kar bi lahko imenovali dom. Avtor je roman nadgradil s fotografjami.

Dušan Šarotar (1968) je pesnik in pisatelj ter avtor številnih scenarijev za dokumentarne in igrane filme. Na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani je študiral sociologijo in filozofijo. Šarotarjeve pesmi in prozna dela so vključeni v več domačih in tujih antologij in prevedeni v številne jezike.

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"Seveda v tem iskanju doma prepoznamo usodo Ahasverja, večnega popotnika, in Šarotarjeva Panorama te usode popisuje suvereno, umaknjeno in izmodreno, pa seveda tudi nekoliko nostalgično: topli dom in mir sta bila izgubljena že v času velikih zgodovinskih pretresov, še prej pa ob daljši odsotnosti do neprepoznavnega spremenjena, kot nas uči Odiseja."

Matej Bogataj, Tretji program Radia Slovenija
This is not a novel in which anything happens; it has all happened already, catastrophically, and the condition of exile is the only place from which one can achieve peace or perspective. This is what I think this marvellous book is telling us. …

Guardian
… the hydraulic ebb and flow of Panorama’s sentence waves subsumes the role of narration … Giving oneself to these meditative rhythms represents the true depth and joy of this novel—and it is a spiritual joy. .

World Literature Today
... dense but rewarding series of W.G. Sebald-like meditations on ideas of belonging ...

Sunday Times
Some literature defies simple description. Case in point, Panorama, by Slovenian poet and writer Dušan Šarotar. One might be inclined to define it as a meditation within a travelogue within a novel. Or perhaps you would prefer to rearrange those terms, it probably wouldn’t matter, because in spite of its subtitle: A Narrative about the Course of Events, Panorama stands at a curious angle to space and time. It is a novel of remembering, of telling and retelling, narratives within narratives, bound together by a coarse thread of repeating themes that are at once timeless and timely.

Numéro Cinq
This book is about a lot of things. Like all good novels, it is about language ... It is also about exile and identity and belonging (and not belonging). Of course, it is also about war and death and the terrible upheaval that war causes. It is about the dark side of life, for there is always a dark side. But it is also about friendship and remembrance and learning about the world.

The Modern Novel
But while Šarotar (and his narrator) serve as the mouthpiece for the various emigres who show up in Panorama, Šarotar, who still lives in Slovenia and writes in Slovene, does not seem to share the emigres’ preoccupation with the loss of their birth languages. His ultimate goal is an attempt to capture in a grand, sweeping gesture of language the ineffable sense of being alive, of finding oneself human on a strange planet. It’s both a search for personal understanding and an attempt to test the limits of language.

Vertigo
Panorama is an extraordinary, uncategorizable book, that is moving in its human dramas and ambitious in its cultural scope. It is also a topical novel of belonging and non-belonging, and of the different kinds of exile – national, linguistic, cultural – that lies at the heart of one strand of the European experience. “A narrative about the course of events” is its subtitle, and it is indeed a rangy, poetic, journalistic, fictional melancholy book of travel in time, place and mind.

citation from the judges of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize
… A meditation on loss and change ... and on time, migration, language, ocean, love and war. It is densely compacted: its two hundred or so pages seem to expand much as a paper flower from childhood did when put in water ...

Stephen Watts, poet and editor