OZAR
Edition: First Edition
Series: THE WORLD IN NOWHERENESS
Publisher: New Avenue Books
Published: November 2, 2024
Place of publication: USA
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9798991635233
First sentence: Sing to me, o Homer, of the history of stars and the history of Earth.
Description: Ozar is the first book in the pentalogy, The World in Nowhereness. The book's first part, titled OZAR, is the voyage toward God, but the voyage starts with the journey inward through the mystical traveler himself. After the mystical traveler encounters Homer and speaks to him, Homer advises him to continue his voyage in the direction of Shakespeare. Thus, the book's second part, Shakespeare in Cosmos, continues this voyage. The travelers in a cosmic ship land on Planet Zena, where children of 10 years are more intelligent than the most outstanding geniuses on Earth. Eventually, they meet the Chief of Children, also called Ozar. At one point, Ozar shows them a little box containing all the secrets of the Cosmos they resolved.

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 byDejan 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
“There are very few such books in Serbian literature.”
— Ivan Cvetanović
“Significant achievemnt in contemporary Serbian poetry.”
— Miljurko Vukadinović