Summary
Emir Imamović Pirke: The Plan of Perfect Failure
Emir Imamović Pirke's sixth novel The Plan of Perfect Failure is a drama about the fragility of a tough man on an entrepreneurial-tourist basis, about having and not having, about the cognitive assonance that leads to - a pool of mud.
Attracted by an ad offering construction land or already existing, dilapidated houses for one euro on the condition that they become touristic capacities, a middle-aged lawyer from Sarajevo, once a journalist, later an invisible part of a bulky and corrupt administrative apparatus, a man with a secure existence and a ruined private life, decides to sell his property, move to Dalmatinska Zagora and become the owner of an apartment with a swimming pool. His, as well as the identical plan of other residents of Zadomište - a village that has evolved from picturesque to disgusting - fails spectacularly. An unsuspecting tourist employee lives with the ghosts of the entire, deserted place, as well as those from his past, while the present tries to make his already ruined life even more complicated. The dream of easy money and a comfortable old age turns into a sea of dealing with wrong choices, broken relationships, lost friends and delayed second chances. The one that the protagonist wishes had never happened and that he doesn't know what to do with.
The character that Pirke created is in many ways atypical and unique, between existentialism and near nihilism stretches a man who seems to have provoked everything that happened to him and now sits and grays with fulfilled wishes, and no new ones that would give him meaning. His contemplation and devastating honesty question the standards of civilization and the lies of a time in which the cocktail of social norms and the concept of a life of idleness are actually as destructive as that of Molotov.
Kruno Lokotar
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