Summary
Ivan Vidić: The clock that only ticks
The clock that only ticks is a novel about love, betrayal, revenge and crime. Beginning as a story about the passionate love and marriage of the university professor Julije and the young student Lujza, similar to those in the operas that Julije passionately listens to somewhere in the background, the novel sovereignly moves in surprising genre directions. Playwright and novelist Ivan Vidić interweaves several characters, fictional sleeves, literary and pop-culture genres, and the heart attack and subsequent heart transplant of a cheated wife and a disappointed professor will open numerous black holes in today's world where "no one has control and madness is the master of the situation". milieu, migrant smuggling, real estate, crime and terrorism, is truly fascinating, and for the reader it is a furious, exciting and at times grotesque race from chapter to chapter, from beginning to end. In the end, there are questions that we regularly ask ourselves anyway without the possibility of a real answer - when are the private triggers activated that turn people into social outcasts and what is their connection with the terrifying world in global disarray? The novel is about the moment when the irrational takes over the situation, reason is lost in the face of feelings, anger and uncontrolled actions. When private madness becomes an "unconscious social revolution", there is no longer a difference between seriousness and farce, humor and horror, in that strange time in which it barely even ticks and just ticks!
Jagna Pogačnik
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