Summary
Robert Perišić: You can spit on whoever asks about us
And indeed, today the story is about the "lost generation" of the 1990s, with good social contextualization, and with a lot of not-so-harmless humor, the collection functions as a lively, effective read. (Mirjana Jurišić, Večernji list)
"You can spit on whoever asks about us" by Robert Perišić [first published in 1999] is a cult book of stories from the nineties. It has not been on sale for years, so many who know Perišić from his more recent works have not had the opportunity to read this book. And here it is, "You can spit..." ten years later in a new, revised edition [with the added story "What are you looking for here"]. The setting of this book is the shaken - in the words of Naomi Klein - the shocked world of the nineties. We could compare the atmosphere of these stories with films shot with a hand-held camera, without artificial lighting and without make-up. Such a literary impression is created by Perišić's uncensored social view, sometimes distorted style and openness to experiment - breaking the realistic norm in places [which critics from his generation, future Fakovians, criticized him for at the time] in order to authentically portray a shaken world.
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