THE WORLD IN NOWHERENESS

*The World in Nowhereness* is a translation of the pentalogy *Svet u nigdini*, written originally in Serbian. The book is in the form of the so-called *prosimetrum*—a combination of poetry and prose; it contains 19 poetic forms that have never been used in Serbian poetry, four of which have never been used anywhere in the world. (One example: a double sonnet wreath with 29 sonnets appears for the first time in this book, which is unique in world poetry from a formal point of view.) The book characterizes epic momentum and various themes, including the Earthly dimension interwoven with extra-terrestrial and otherworldly dimensions embodied by the Cosmos and God. Also, the book contains elements of an epic work, essay, novel, drama, and a dominant line of pure philosophy. THEY SAID ABOUT THE WORLD IN NOWHERENESS “When I got my hands on Dejan Stojanović's book *The World in Nowhereness*, I was amazed and read the book with great pleasure. I did not even believe there was someone today who could write such a long poem, an epic as if I opened to read the *Iliad* in our time. I recommend this book to all believers in poetry because faith in poetry is the same as faith in eternity and eternal life.” — Matija Bećković “*The World in Nowhereness* is Dejan Stojanović’s utopian absolute book, a Mallarméan absolute. An absolute story, or an absolute book, according to Borges, is a desert-like book: sandy, grainily unforeseeable, and corpuscularly innumerable. It is simultaneously a vision and a chimera. Isn’t that precisely why we long for an absolute book? *The World in Nowhereness* by Dejan Stojanović is, in his way, an embodiment of that dream.” — Srba Ignjatović “I have always wondered, even about my poetic work, what a total poem is… Can the pentalogy by Dejan Stojanović be called a total poem that every poet of note has dreamed about since Homer? I felt such impulses while reading *The World in Nowhereness*. This is an absolute poem, of an absolute system of thought that reaches across the totality of our civilizational legacies.” — Duško Novaković “Exactly 17 years ago, in the last year of the 20th century, I came across the work of Dejan Stojanović, and then I wrote a text from which I will extract a few sentences. “Dejan Stojanović, in the last two years, made a real feat; he published six books, except for one, all books of poetry.” This first five-book collection was published in the last year of the 20th century, and here we are now with the five-book collection in the XXI century, nearing the end of the second decade. And then I also wrote the following: “Stojanović is a poet who searches for the perfect poetic form because at the same time he searches for the absolute meaning of human existence.” Whether it was a hunch or not, there is the Pentalogy, and there is that word, that concept – an absolute, an absolute book, an absolute poem that could be sensed even in that first pentalogy, in those poems that he published at that time.” — Aleksandar Petrov (January 17, 2018) “(*The World in Nowhereness offers*) the joy of cognition due to discoveries worthy of the Nobel Prize…” — Milan Lukić Dejan Stojanović is a writer who thinks very sovereignly and broadly. If you read Dejan Stojanović, your life will not be the same – it will be better.” — Muharem Bazdulj “It has been quite a while since we had, if at all, a poetic pentalogy in Serbian poetry.” — Dušan Stojković Dejan Stojanović's poetic-philosophical book *The World in Nowhereness*, both in form and content, is an original and exceptional literary work and can be considered a rare literary event in Serbian poetry and on the world stage. — Nevena Vitošević