Summary
Feđa Gudić: Before the grave/ Darkness
"Before the grave - darkness" in 24 novellas sheds light on the whole range of human natures and tendencies: these are the quiet righteous, noble, spineless, violent, indifferent villains, comrades, people at the last limit of sanity. In this collection, every involuntary tic, eyelid or body twitch says more about interpersonal relationships than exalted dialogue or surprising twists. And no matter how much great works of Promethean proportions were missing, Zaim, Hasan, Asim, Meho the butcher, Doctor Crnac still get a space where all the human spirit comes alive with a lot of humor in everyday, almost trivial upheavals, in which they themselves are so realistically portrayed that it can be confidently asserted that their existence and actions are not so much imagined as witnessed. And the ease of language and expressions used to convey it - apart from keeping the reader's attention on the most important, hard-to-see details, is the greatest value of such stories. However, one cannot and should not ignore the hidden melancholy behind this humor, a kind of disappointment that hovers over every optimistic, promising beginning. That is why there is darkness in front of everyone's holster, whether it is in the background or not, which no one manages to constantly maneuver or hide from it every time. The sensibility of this collection is in the darkness that is briefly forgotten - in certain moments of absurdity and laughter.
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