Summary
Miloš Živanović: The Ghosts of November
The Ghosts of November by Miloš Živanović was created on the trail of a kind of epistolary love novel, but what sets this prose genre in motion is the narrator's second voice, which telegraphically informs the readers about the very situation of writing letters to the "main character" Senko. It could be said that, therefore, this thick love letter about personal loss, connected with traumatic losses in the recent history of the country, is told in two voices - female and male: the one that narrates emotionally, deeply, movingly and redemptively, and male, dry, administrative and unfeeling. In the linguistic gap between those two narrative voices, the time of loss was "captured", experienced and described. It is about the month of November, in which so much happened that shaped Senka, her family, her relationship with her former lover Aaron, to whom she directs every written word.
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