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Bebek Borna | Malnar Željko: U potrazi za staklenim gradom

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U potrazi za staklenim gradom

Bebek Borna | Malnar Željko

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Željko Malnar, Borna Bebek: In Search of a Glass City

Everyone has their Glass City, every person, every nation, every ideology, religion. Everyone creates an image of a perfect man or a perfect society, an ideal city. The purpose of life was to search for that Glass City. The old lama did not say such a thing to me. But I had the feeling that he meant something like that. I mostly spoke. I was expressing the thoughts that were slowly maturing in me along the way. I was talking to myself believing I was having a dialogue, when in fact I was having a monologue. The moon floated over the snowy peaks and peeked into the monastery room, illuminating our faces. Here, so many thousands of kilometers from home, all these thoughts came to me. Yes, the Glass City was an allegory. Searching for the Glass City meant searching for your ideal, searching for yourself. Was it necessary to go all that way to realize something like that? I was leading this whole monologue, everything seemed so logical, so clear, almost I was too smart. However, something was not right. Some cynicism, some mild suspicion or irony on Lama's face illuminated by the moonlight and the flashes of the dying fire gave me no peace. (from the book)
Malnar and Bebek searched for parallel or disappeared worlds, mystical secrets and other thrills. They exposed themselves to extreme psychological and physical circumstances, descended into the underground worlds and caves of the dead, sailed the Indian Ocean, climbed the Himalayas, socialized with Buddhist priests, mercenaries, criminals, cannibals on the Solomon Islands, Indian savages, drug smugglers, failed punks, corrupt pharmacists, suspicious lovators.
What Malnar and Bebek saw or experienced would matter. in three or five ordinary human existences, so it is not surprising that their book offers more content, adventure and fun than any other book in Croatian. It is noticeable that the authors worked hard on the style and language, so even today the book is extremely readable. (from the afterword)

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