Title: THE WORLD IN NOWHERENESS
Description: *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
Subjects: The World in Nowhereness, Poet Dejan Stojanovic, philosophical in poetry of Dejan Stojanovic, Poetry and Philosophy, Serbian literature, Serbian poetry, Poetry in translation, God (Christianity), cosmos, Universal mind, Universe
Places: New York City, Chicago Metropolitan Area, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Athens (Greece), Rome (Italy), Constantinople, Paris (France), London, London (England), Florence (Italy), Venice (Italy), Shakespearia, New City, New Planet, Belgrade, Cetinje (Montenegro)
Time periods: The whole of time and space