Summary
Aleksandar Tišma: Kapo
At the center of Tišma's novel Kapo is Vilko Lamian, a man who at one point had the freedom of choice and chose to become a criminal, a capo, someone who stands at the center of his destiny as if in a vortex. However, he does not sink into that vortex, but is forced to live his destiny.
The knowledge of sin in Tishma's heroes does not produce the need for repentance followed by forgiveness, because there is no justification for the magnitude of the crimes committed. Vilko Lamian understands fear and out of fear makes a decision to survive and that decision leads him further towards evil. He becomes a merchant of life. He became the capo and was supposed to be the one who rules, the elder, the superman, like the other men who rose to their positions to give way to the worship of power, to enjoy killing others. Lamian became a liar, he was not a capo out of conviction, and already in the camp he became a capo to himself, because by hitting others, he was also hitting himself.
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