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At the heart of the story of The Well as a metaphor for the deep and hidden, a metaphor for digging into one’s own soul to find a small spring in which one can – as in a mirror – see one’s own victories (and the victories of others), as well as things one might not want to see – defeats, moral lapses, mistakes in one’s relationship with oneself and others, vanity.
The main character, supposedly driven by noble goals, sets himself the task of digging a well for the people in a remote village, but it turns out that behind good intentions there is also vanity and a desire for supremacy. The author reveals the spiritual and moral consequences of his actions. The past and the present intertwine and connect different destinies.
Dimitar Bashevski is a novelist and poet. He was born in 1943 in the village of Gjavato near Bitola. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. He worked as a journalist and editor, foreign correspondent and later as a publisher. He was the president of the North Macedonian PEN Center from 2000 to 2006 and has been its honorary president since then.
Baševski is the author of the following novels: The Stranger, The Return, There Is No Death Until the Bell Rings, A Year in the Life of Ivan Plevneš, The Sarajan Carnation, Anja's Diary (for children), The Fountain, Brother; and poetry collections: The House of Life, Temporary Living, Overcoming Time, The Foundation Stone.
His books have been translated into English, Czech, Romanian, Greek, Serbian, Turkish and Albanian. He has received the following awards: the 11th October Award, the Racin Award, the Pečalbarska povelba Award, the Vančo Nikoleski Award, and the Novel of the Year Award for the novel Vodnjak, which was also nominated for the international Balkanika Award in 2002.