Summary
Ninoslav Mitrović: The Deaf Age
Ninoslav Mitrović's "Deaf Age" is a collection of horror and horror stories that found inspiration in Serbian folklore and mythology. Thanks to the unusual talent of the author to create the atmosphere of the world he is writing about in an extremely graphic way, the reader is easily transported to the literary space in which goblins, vampires, the sea, witches, navies, water emperors and other creatures from Slavic mythology move. It is the world of forgotten vows that come to be paid, the world of towns that appear with fog on impure days, the world of forces that step out of oblivion and ancient stories every now and then.
"These stories unequivocally contain fantasy, the supernatural beings in them are real on the object-presentation level - they are not relativized by unreliable narrators, alcohol, fever, delirium, dreams. The world that 'Deaf Age' describes the world is dark, uncertain, unreliable - a world in which, as soon as the sun goes down, there is a time of otherworldly forces that are a great pain to deal with even when everything is done 'according to the rules'."
Dejan Ognjanović
"A carefully constructed and very safe style, imbued with ethnology and tradition, but most of all with authentic emotion, written in old-fashioned, but not old-fashioned language, easily draws the reader into the dark, the eerie atmosphere of stories set in the world of a Serbian/Balkan village."
Branislav Predojević
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