Auschwitz Café
Mimesis
Private Gallery
Madonna’s Jewels
V Madoninem nakitu Blašković ustvari štiri glasove, ki se prepletejo v pravi kvartet, in pojejo o agoniji na prelomu tisočletja, ko hočejo ikonografijo preteklosti uskladiti s sedanjo. Madonin nakit je postavljen v zaporniško ambulanto med Natovim bombardiranjem Srbije in je pravi postmoderni priročnik politične nekorektnosti. Včasih poglobljeni in premišljeni, včasih razbijaški, včasih duhoviti vsi štirje pripovedovalci, od katerih […]
Tamara
The Star of David
Hiša mrtvih vonjav
THE HOUSE OF DEAD SCENTS is a novel about a collector of rare bottles and scents in a small town in Vojvodina, marked by „spiritual anxiety, a modest circle of friends, the limitations of small-town orbit, and the eternal apathy of people.“ It takes us to a mysterious house where scents intertwine with memories and […]
Nothing’s Lost
Saltykov, the hero of Alexander Kabakov’s novel Nothing’s Lost, is a mature man thinking back over his long life – from his childhood under Stalin spent in a small town and his youth as a trend-setter in Moscow during the Thaw till the present day in a capital where sweet freedom went hand in hand with […]
Leica format
In the novel Leica Format, Daša Drndić depicts a provincial town and the petty-bourgeois mentality of its inhabitants — both the old residents and the ‘newcomers’ and immigrants. The main characters, some of whom were mentioned in her previous works, encourage readers to look for connections between them and to wonder whether they are based on […]