Summary
Zoran Ferić: When you cross the river
The new novel by one of the most awarded Croatian writers is simultaneously wild and painfully tender, a transgressive love story between a fifty-three-year-old man, otherwise a writer, and a twenty-two-year-old student of sculpture. It is obviously based on Marguerite Duras' cult novel The Lover, not only in its content but also in its title, but this one, instead of from the perspective of the fifteen-year-old lover of a middle-aged Chinese banker, is written from the perspective of a lover, in a different time and space. And that lover is aware of all the looks they get in hotels, restaurants and parks, when he accidentally forgets and takes her hand, but she "demummified" him, she reborn him when they first ended up in bed together, and he has no choice. Ferić is different in this novel, his handwriting is condensed and convulsive, the text poetic, irrational and passionate, and it excites us just as much as the love that spits in the face of the world's hypocrisy.
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