Summary
Tomislav Šovagović: Rudnik čvaraka 2
Ten years after Rudnik čvaraka, awarded in Vinkovci with the Josip i Ivan Kozarac award for the book in 2012, Tomislav Šovagović wrote a sequel to Slavonic incidents and accidents. In front of the lens and the pen of Slavonia from the last century stand people and events from the plains, their unusual habits, the routine of difficult everyday life interwoven with humor and teasing of the neighborhood. How two peculiar brothers Franjo and Fabijan survived weddings, trips and film shoots, why they bathed with white earwigs, nettle shampoo and hairspray, what do the terms ponjavka, panjeras and horseman mean - these are some of the topics of about eighty short prose records, soaked in the melancholy of the working people of Slavonia and Baranja. Mourning the death of Richard Burton, "Romeo and Juliet" at the Ladimireva lenia, Vivaldi's "concert" at Karašica and recorded Harms Slucajev give local events a universal meaning, in times when the world was not yet a global village. The collection is rounded off by longer stories - Chocolate Show, Beautiful and Sunflower Cave - as a metaphor for the inevitable parting with the old way of life.
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