Summary
Olja Savičević Ivančević: Making a dog laugh
Looking at a child's face and imagining what it will look like one day is a favorite sport of all parents. Conversely, it is easy to see a young person in a mature face. Well, the collection Nasmijati psa is that face of a child, the debut in which Olje Savičević Ivančević's author's work is outlined. This edition also contains seven new stories that show that the debut was written so powerfully and maturely that the new stories of the proven stylist of our literature are in no way different. Make a dog laugh is a collection of stories that still captures attention 15 years after its first publication. A collection that awaits new readers and reminds old ones of its generosity and magic. Mediterranean melancholy, camp-aesthetics, disdain for authority and rebellion, urban that roars in the ears, the world as an adventure, swollen with curiosity and carnality, then passages of nostalgia and fog of memory, impudence that grows with optimism, flashy sentences and discreet details and a hundred other wonders make these young stories mature and already somewhat classic, because classic is always young. —Kruno Lokotar
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