I am guerilla

I am guerilla

'The world is composed of stories and not atoms' Dragan Jovanovic Danilov wrote in his novel 'Waves of Belgrade Sea'.

The main hero in the novel is Belgrade. The writer says that to him our capital is not a mere decor but 'nourishing uterus of the novel'. 'My goal was to show unlimited diversity of Belgrade. London, Paris, Berlin – all these are novelistic cities'.

You call Belgrade a novelistic city, too?
 

- I recognize reality and I feel erogenity, historical and cultural sedimentation of Belgrade. For example in the chapter 'A Report from Our Obsessed Polis' in which I am dealing with Belgrade underground, I am just repeating Faulkner's idea of the world as a global brothel. Belgrade is a city in which numerous identities have been sedimented. I tried to give a vertical probing of those identities.

Magical
- We are living at a time when we do not see reality because of alternative, invented worlds. Undisputable greatness of magical realism can never be exhausted because in it magical is equally important as real.

The indicative title 'Waves of Belgrade Sea' has special connotation view from the actual perspective?

- For me the title of the book is a challenge and a clear indication to a reader. Waves are key symbol in my novel, waves and water in general. Pedja Milosavljevic saw Belgrade as a city by the sea. Water is our first homeland, but it can be a destructive force as well, just like a sin. Our people have been these days exposed to water violence. I am not writing about that water, but about waves of catharsis.
 

Every chapter is a wave. At the very beginning...