Summary
Stjepo Martinović: Sirens sing Fado
"Sirens sing Fado" is a novel with several layers of plot, characterization of characters, their psychological anchoring, interactions that are often dialogues, and more often monologues of people hardened in loneliness, exclusion, and the displeasure of fate. Genre, a story about the roots, the conflict of never clearly defined dreams and the reality that would destroy even the most well-rounded, this novel is at the same time a saga about the irrationality that insularism naturally gives birth to, more often suppressing it with the appearance of "normality" than allowing it to live; paradoxically, while the living environment of the islanders is ruled by insurmountable chaos, the cemetery is a model of purposeful order... and even the row of cypress trees on the way to it bears the stamp of "memorial rationality", in contrast to the "confused-diffuse" state of the settlement, the psyche of the islanders, and even those whom the island captures with the magic of barren exaltation...
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