Summary
Ružica Aščić: Beehives
The drama trilogy Beehives by award-winning writer Ružica Aščić places a family with its key problems at the center of each drama. The protagonists would like something more from life than passive surrender to circumstances, but their efforts face the pressure of the environment that pushes their desires into the realm of the undesirable. Due to the circumstances, the characters become listless and even too weak to change their unenviable situation. The atmosphere of emptiness and hopelessness, created by seemingly empty dialogues, emerges strongly from the text and envelops the reader like a cobweb. In the dramas, one notices the reverse gradation of impotence and weakness, starting from the first in which the desire is clear, but continuously hits the wall, through the second in which the desire is no longer there and one feels the impossibility of achieving closeness to the third in which there is a general prohibition of both love and humanity. With a sure hand, Ružica Aščić creates the Antonionian atmosphere of a desert where it is difficult to find a landmark, let alone an oasis.
Biblos Newsletter
New titles, special copies and quiet recommendations from the antiquarian bookshop.