Summary
Borislav Pekić: The years eaten by grasshoppers II
Memories from prison or anthropopeia (1948-1954)
The chronicle of Borislav Pekić's prison years conveys all the tragedy of the writer's personal experience and reveals the harsh side of the communist regime in Yugoslavia immediately after the Second World War. By reading this poignant and instructive testimony, together with the writer, we will discover how the dungeon changes language, perception, life, turning into a kind of parallel reality where the laws of human community are best seen. Where are the limits of freedom? Do all paths of struggle lead to suffering? Are convictions, coercion and terror an unenviable legacy that society has not yet renounced? Borislav Pekić finds answers for which many do not have the strength and conscience in his own and collective experience of his people, as well as in the achievements of civilization, which in all periods of history include prison. In his eclipse, the writer finds the framework of his own existence and spirit, struggle and the true limits of life and death - the meaning of living, above all.
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