Summary
Saša Ilić: The Dog and the Double Bass
The hero of the novel The Dog and the Double Bass, whose bulky instrument has long since fused with his back, like some haunted hunchback, takes the reader to places arranged on mental and geographical maps, to points around which there is a broad social consensus. it was determined that they should not be seen so naked or that they should be forgotten; from a battleship of the Yugoslav Navy, through a metal hospital, a deadly Danube bank, poisoned institutions, the hypocrisy of humanitarianism, the fate of insanely talented rebels, first and last loves, devastating abandonment, with constant flashes and nightmares, to the light; sea, music and endless sunny, refugee-filled Genoa, a city recognizable for its phantasmagorical cemetery, and even more so for its port - the point where the erased and exiled see freedom and from where they start a new life, or at least a hint of it.
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