Summary
Berislav Blagojević: Monument
In the book Monument, Berislav Blagojević writes twenty-one short stories in which he expresses a wide range of interests in different aspects of reality, which are reflected and shaped into a literary text. Thus, starting from the birthplace of Don Quixote (and all serious writers, in a certain way, necessarily refer to Cervantes' novel), the writer creates and introduces us to an imaginary space in which the present constantly confronts the past, where in an undisguised critical tone, but also ironically, he points to the anomalies of human existence at the beginning of the third millennium; then the postmodernist play with the book, the library, reading and the very act of creation; furthermore, removing the layers of historical dust from documents and turning them into fiction; emotional evocation of the past...
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