Summary
Radmila Karlaš: Doll
It is difficult to describe the way Radmila Karlaš writes, because it is really not something you come across every day. Her stories take place in some undefined time, which can be ours, but it can also be fifty or a hundred years ago, because they are devoid of everything that could be burdensome in terms of concrete time determination, and focused on the essential. There are only people in them, their mutual relationships and the forces that affect them, which may not be of this world. And that's something that sometimes gives you chills, because these stories are sometimes on the border of fantasy, but it's neither epic, nor science fiction, nor some kind of fantasy from horror literature, but something that hits the very core of our collective imagination and doesn't stop until we finish reading, and sometimes even after that. Radmila's language is extremely polished and clear, her descriptions are clear and everything she writes about can easily be imagined before our eyes. And because of that, everything we read leaves an even stronger impression on us.
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