Summary
Dobrica Ćosić: Daleko je sunce
A novel that begins Ćosić's literary biography and will shake the foundations of post-war socialist realist literature. With it, the writer put the morality of humanity and truth above the morality of necessity and revolutionary dictates, thereby demythologizing communist practice and pointing out ideological fallacies, raising the issue of freedom of choice. The book was published in millions of copies and translated into dozens of foreign languages, and was written in a month in Ribarska Banja, under the watchful eye of Oskar Davič...
Instead of an afterword, as the best insight into the background and theme of the novel, the reader encounters an interesting conversation between literary historian Ana Ćosić Vukić, the author's daughter and editor of his works, with her father about the novel Daleko je sunce more than half a century after of publication.
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