The novel Ballerina, Ballerina is a first person narrative of a girl, later on a woman whose soul has been wounded. Her understanding of the world is limited, moreover she relives it through the eyes and words of adults. Foremostly, through the eyes of her mother Ivanka, her brother Karl, her friend Ivan who used to believe that he would become a doctor and cure her, all the way to a village postman and a series of other characters who at the end of the 1960s at the Carst of Trieste come close to her frail being. Balerina does not distinguish dreams from reality, both dimmensions melt into a uniform whole presenting her truth of the life and world. A part of narration is in a form of epistolar novel, while the entire novel could be read as pastiche, referring to models from 18th and 19th century.
