The main character of Čar’s debut novel Igra angelov in netopirjev – When Bats Dance with Angels is a priest, Father Faus whose more or less peaceful life is disrupted by a mysterious femme fatale Nasja. In the numbed inhabitants of a sleepy small town she arouses interest as well as reluctance. The priest together with other lost creatures quickly finds himself in a vicious circle, and its centre, around which the entire novel evolves, is Nasja herself. Not a single event in a novel is descibed solely from the perspective of one person, the chapters are interrupted and continued from the perspective of another character. The result is a very dynamic and simultaneously coherent narrative structure without pauses – ”breaks” for the reader who is forced to read a novel in one breath. The style is dense and elaborate but not overburdened. The author creates a rich gallery of characters, plastic figures which are not only abstract and symbolic but are fatally defined by existential, social, psychological, even mythological coordinates.
