Summary
Franja Petrinović: At Last
Franja Petrinović's book of stories At Last is an extension of the author's curiosity about life that wears out and falls away, as well as a questioning of the essence and meaning of human existence. His heroes, anonymous people with ordinary biographies, faced with aging and life slipping away from them, are condemned to suffer. They are double losers: abandoned and humiliated by those closest to them, they are almost always victims of the new times. As participants in a former world, whose ethical and ideological foundations have been shaken, they have a hard time bearing the decline of some and the rise of other values, the denial of tradition and the inevitable loss of identity. In Petrinović's world, inhabited by sadness and melancholy, there is no anger and violence, but that is why sadness and fatigue from survival mark the lives of the heroes who, on the pages of this prose, recount the scope of their own existence. And that can be useful both for them and for the readers. And healing. Žaneta Đukić Perišić
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