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Vladimir Tasić


Born
in Novi Sad, Serbia
January 01, 1965


Vladimir Tasic was born in 1965 in Novi Sad. He obtained his BA in Mathematics in Novi Sad in 1988. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 1992. Since 1995 he has been professor at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada). He has published two volumes of short stories, Pseudologia Fantastica and Radost brodlomnika, and two novels: Oproštajni dar (The Farewell Gift) and Kiša i hartija (Rain and Paper). The Farewell Gift was voted book of the year for 2001 by the panel of Radio Belgrade 2. The volume of short stories Radost brodolomnika has been translated into English as Herbarium of Souls (1998). The Farewell Gift has been published in French, Slovakian, Macedonian and German. Rain and Paper rec ...more

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Oproštajni dar

4.32 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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Stakleni zid

4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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Mathematics and the Roots o...

4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions
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Kiša i hartija

3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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Udaranje televizora

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Njuškači jabuka

4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Radost brodolomnika: Priče

3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Svetovi Alena Badjua: Matem...

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Il muro di vetro

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Abschiedsgeschenk

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“Eksperiment iz alhemije jezika. Pomešati sirće sa amil-alkoholom, dodati malo sumporne kiseline. Dobijena smesa ima ukus identičan ukusu banane. To jeste ukus banane, ali nije banana. Jeziku se ne može verovati. A ipak mu verujemo.”
Vladimir Tasić

“Doseljenici su, otkrio je to posmatrajući tetku i teču, a docnije je to primetio i kod sebe, razapeti između svojih maštarija. Budućnost uvek dolazi i stoga nikada nije tu, prošlost uvek odlazi. Vreme je dvostruko, razdvojeno u sebi. Prostor, takođe. Ovde smo ali nismo odavde; odande smo, ali nismo tamo. Život je neprestano premošćavanje, ukrštenica na dva jezika; svet je volja i predstava koja se odigrava, simultano, na dve pozornice postavljenje jedna do druge. Predstave su složene, bogatih kostima, šminka je operska, scena je prepuna realističnih detalja, mehanička pomagala konstruisana su sa preciznošću časovničara. Možda baš zbog te složenosti, ponekad se dogodi da se namah dotaknu, da se na jednoj od pozornica odigra nešto što predstavlja drugu predstavu i ukazuje na nju. Kanapi skriveni u tami iza kulisa međusobno se zapliću, neobjašnjivo, bog iz mašine iznenada aterira na pogrešnu binu i progovara drugim jezikom, privlači pažnju glumca koji vidi drugog glumca kako na susednoj bini igra osobu istog imena, i zastaje, muca, čuje šaptača ali ne reaguje, zbunjen slikom koja, budući da je on glumac, nije ništa manje stvarna od njega”
Vladimir Tasić, Kiša i hartija

“In each speck of mud of which we are made, however small or seemingly insignificant, one can find traces of the matter that melts and glows at high temperatures, that gets cold and hardens, becoming in the end what we sometimes call poetry.”
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