Summary
Ivan Vidić: A dream of a thousand summers
*The book is underlined with a ballpoint pen.
What would life in Croatia look like if the state by some chance sold the water supply to the Americans, and doctors in hospitals were left without surgical sutures? Is it possible to create a good business on cabbage in Lijepa najna, or maybe make a significant income by starting an egg plant? What is the Great Friday Gang, why are the police monitoring crows suspected of corruption and who founded the Masonic order mysteriously called the Genius Ordo?
In the collection Dream of a Thousand Summers Ivan Vidić spares no one; everyone is what they really are when the masks fall off - on the wallpaper are politicians, civil servants, entrepreneurs, criminals and prostitutes, journalists, doctors and that mythical "people" who are silent and suffer. For a moment, it seems that Vidić really exaggerated this time, because such a thing could never happen in reality, but while the reader laughs out loud at this full-blooded satire, the sting of bitterness pulsating in the plexus confirms that Vidić's literature is extraordinarily imaginative, but also that reality could easily follow it.
With this collection, Ivan Vidić enthrones himself as the enfant terrible of Croatian literature - he is the one who sees everything and knows nothing. shut up. At the same time, it also provides a rare literary pleasure: before us is a juicy collection of twenty thematically linked novellas, written in a sure hand, and precisely the novella as a form we rarely see. Vidić wrote a collection that will be talked about for a long time... between two bouts of bitter and hilarious laughter.
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