Summary
Borislav Pekić: A Sentimental Tale of the British Empire
Combining many historical truths and misconceptions, Borislav Pekić, an asylum seeker on a British island for many years, created an unusual, historically correct and reader-exciting and interesting history of proud Albion - the British United Kingdom. Sentimental history of the British Empire, however, rises above the "terror of history", but also above literary generalizations and fictionalization, with an ironic deviation towards an otherwise reliable historical approach to the material. In this way, he created a work that testifies that history is the "teacher of life", but also described its good and bad students. There is nothing sentimental in bloody historical episodes, but there is in the sentiment of a writer who knows that a good story is the basis for a good book, and this history is exactly that.
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