A Way to Karadag
The only published novel by Pavle Jovanović, The Way to Karadag, belongs to the works of great narrative power and artistic value. Written as a roman-fleuve, Put u Karadag consists of four independent novels following four generations of Montenegrin family Bogišić from Orlica. Through four books and the fate of the four protagonists, Okiča’s Beso, Bešo’s Djurdjo, […]
Thursday
Thursday is a novel about the fate of Eastern European societies after the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as about individuals who, in new life circumstances, struggle to understand the world and find their place within it. Through the lives of five female protagonists, it reveals the residue that has accumulated at the […]
Ballerina, Ballerina
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 […]
The Ornament
The Ornament is the story of a student, Matej Hóz, takes place in the 1950s in the days of persecution of Christians by the communist régime. Matej billets a priest hiding from the state police in his apartment. They form a strange friendship, which remains the central theme of the story even after the priest disappears, […]
Reason
Sloboda‘s prose writing has strong autobiographical features. The author, nearly always, describes his own experience and workings of his mind in his prose writing: he focuses on the search for the meaning of life and on the attitudes of an individual in an estranged society. Reason brings out a story of an intellectual, engaged in […]
The Unwritten Novel
The Unwritten Novel is a prose work about a non-assertive intellectual, set in the 1970s. The protagonist, Adam Zachariáš, is a type of an anti-hero. The communist regime persecutes him, but not to that extent he would make it the main topic of his „notes“ for a novel. Zachariáš realizes that behind every ban on working or […]
The End of the Game
The End of the Game is a psychological novel with a suspense plot deals with the problem of crime and punishment, with both the individual and collective morals of the society in the last decade of socialism in the 1980s. A film director murders his wife in affect, but his mother saves him by pleading guilty and accepting […]
The Lamp
The Lamp is an ambitious project, combining several traditional types of novel: a road novel, an educational novel, a social novel. It brings forth a skeptical polemic with “great stories”: a Christian story of the “history of salvation”, a socialist story of emancipation of the working-class man, a story of “liberation” based on the belief in the technical progress. […]
Mark the Horse Groom and the Pope of Hungary
The sparse plot of a historical novel Mark the Horse Groom and the Pope of Hungary is set in 16th century, in the times of the Dózsa uprising. The author writes about the powerful men of this world who yearn for even more power and who do not hesitate to use any beguiling means for reaching […]
Dogs Marry
The novel Dogs Marry offers an interesting and bold insight into our contemporary reality. A suspenseful story about the private life of a writer coming to a small town to do research for his next prose work deals with the unclear and insincere relationships within the society. It probes the borders of funny and serious, and examines how […]