Summary
Boris Perić: Cheese stories
"After this literary travesty by Boris Perić, you will look at cheese with different eyes." - Jutarnji list
The general "dietary" place of cheese, which runs through each of the stories as a kind of leitmotif, is not a concession to the all-consuming journalistic gastro-craze, but a kind of cultural code, which guides the reader through the cultural-historical, mostly literary wastelands of recent centuries. Stylistically and content-wise, and above all narrative-technically, Perić's travesties come close to Umberto Eco's travesties, with whose texts Perić's works have already been compared in critics and reviews. In contrast to ironic parody, travesty does not enter into literary polemics with either the authors or the works it deals with, but in a witty way it tries to point out a series of literary and non-literary contents that we cannot deal with in any other way than humorously. The fact that the stories in this collection exude a certain explosive-intellectual charge, which, however, does not tire the reader in any way, brings them closer, in addition to that of Eco, to the prose and film poetics of authors such as Woody Allen. As it is known from numerous interviews that Woody Allen and Umberto Eco never managed to develop a special interest in each other, one could freely say that with his stories Perić reconciles these two poetics through the lowest common denominator, which is precisely the form of travesty.
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