Summary
Thomas Glavinic: How to live
Laconically, ironically, on the edge of mockery, with a touch of dry humor, Tomas Glavinić tells the story of growing up and the fate of a young man who, in his own indecision and fickleness, wanders through diverse and numerous life situations, all the while behaving like a sleepy and passive observer and reader who doesn't know how to say "no", just as he doesn't even know how to take the initiative in his own life. The story is read in one breath, in a steady rhythm that does not allow the reader to rest; it is a story imbued with irony, but without cynicism, because the author feels compassion for that state of non-being. In the end, the main hero of that life's stumbling did not become Točarli, but a bare, globalized and trivialized life that offers a lie to the ideologized pages of colorful - "fake", as the writer says - newspapers, and not the search for identity and responsibility to grow from it into a complete person.
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