The novel Spectator

I am not a literary theorist. When I write I am a writer, when I read I am a reader. But when I stepped into the world of The novel Spectator, I became something third, I became a reader who gives birth to a writer in himself, because I read and dreamed of a world that I also want to upgrade. Because The novel Spectator it makes everyday life magical and gives you the opportunity to create yourself in the book as a reader. To look for yourself, your love, the one that ended, the one that will be born soon.

If it never occurred to you what the DNA of love looks like, The novel Spectator offers you that lesson. Here you will find the biology of human love, the chemistry of eroticism, the physics of passion.

So, do not go through my reading The novel Spectator. Sit down and read it The novel Spectator. I know you will find what you need.''

Aleksandar Rusjakov

Milorad Pavić's attitude: "If I want to change the way of reading, I have to change the way of writing" for Zharko Kujundjiski represented both a life and a creative determination since he was writing "Spectator", both in his heart and in his head, but on paper as well. Because, like Pavić, despite his youth, he knew that there are many more talented readers in the world than talented writers or literary critics. And the readers said their big YES for this novel. And so spectacularly in the Library the MOST read on "Kultura" very quickly, right behind "The Navel of the World" by Venko Andonovski (2002) and "Conversation with Spinoza" by Goce Smilevski (2003), under number 9 (coincidentally or not) is his "Spectator" (2004). I said my big YES, and I wrote it, and I, both as a reader and as a critic, by the fact that my reading of this extremely new novel at the time, both compositionally and (re)narratively, made its home in my book "A Small Literary testament' (2007).

Roland Barthes distinguishes two ways of reading. The first articulates the story and, since that story is what matters, one simply skims through it without realizing the language games. The second clings to the text itself and conquers it, very carefully, patiently, digging for its signification in the field of language, not in the field of the story. Rereading it today, 15 years after its first publication, I feel how mature "Spectator" provides exactly that opportunity for such a double reading through disclose its branching signification and its lightness where stories are built and strung together. "Spectator" offers great pleasure from/in the text itself.

Vesna Mojsova-Chepishevska