Wednesday, February 16th, at 1 P.M. 
Palace of Princess Ljubica, Kneza Sime Markovića 8

The Belgrade City Museum welcomes you to the presentation of the book and to the discussion with the participacion of, Petar Pijanović, PhD, Zoran Hamović, Bojan Kovačević arch., Director of the Museum, who is also the editor of the publication, and the author.

The book Historical and Apparitional Characters of Belgrade / Belgrade in Borislav Pekić’s novels Golden Fleece and Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan was published at the end of December 2004 in the edition of the Museum of the City of Belgrade. The author is Tatjana Korićanac, senior curator of the Museum. The text is reviewed by Petar Pijanović, PhD. Photographs were selected by Vladimir Popovic while Dragana Lacmanović was in charge of the graphic layout.

The book is an attempt to understand the history of Belgrade through literature and in a surreal manner, literature genuine as the literary signatures (interiors) of Uskoković, Nušić, Andrić, Vučo, Selenić, Mihiz, Ćosić, Pavić or Bajac’s Druid. The parting of the visible, the historically documented and the invisible, imaginary side of the City is the core of the topic that preserves the museum’s poetics primarily with its historical layer: personal records of the characters, events and toponyms in Pekic’s novels.

The presentation of such a research attempt with the support of the Museum of the City of Belgrade provides the opportunity to hear some of the up to now unknown facts about the City that generates our intellectual, literary – philosophical, and artistic creativity.