Summary
Branislav Glumac: Brijeg hijena - a novel about Croatian reality
In 1991, with his previous novel 'Pokusni čvodk', the actor showed a penchant for radical criticism aimed at the arrogance of the new government, the ruler's entourage and the primitivism of the new administrative layer. In "Brijeg hyena" this criticism is radicalized, we have not yet seen such critical sharpness in the works of contemporary Croatian writers...
The novel is based on the conflict between the owner of a tower, built on a hill above the city, who faces the arrival of new powers (young generals) on the slopes of the hill; they want to drive the old owner out of his tower and are torturing him in different ways: from playing irritating sounds from the tape recorder (howling hyenas) to the pressures and persecutions undertaken by various instances of the state administration against the owner of the tower...
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