Summary
Nele Karajlić: Solunska 28: About sex, drugs and rock and roll
The wait was worth it - the final part of the Solunska 28 trilogy is finally in front of the faithful army of admirers of the character and work of Dr. Nelet Karajlić. This put an end to the story of the fate of one Dorćol address and several generations that lived there, but opened a new chapter in the creative biography of a man who has been singing, composing, acting, directing and writing for four decades. Throughout that time, Dr. Karajlić, with his inexhaustible sense of humor, made it easier for us to understand and endure a world in which we were more concerned with survival than with enjoying life. It was Mrs. History's boss. But Dr. Karajlić would not be Dr. Karajlić if he had not decided that in his saga of one city and two and a half world wars, he would grab that same History where it is thinnest and turn it upside down. Therefore, the final part of Thessalonians 28 can be read as a kind of reverse prophecy of the satirist-prophet who saw what was going to happen to us long before much of it actually happened to us. Now we have before us a powerful artistic view of an alternative recent past in which the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia was avoided thanks to the trust of all its nations and nationalities in rock and roll. And don't think that it is mere fiction, because after you read the last sentence of the final part of Solunska 28, you will understand how sorry you are that the world from Dr. Karajlić's imagination did not become reality. Although, you never know.
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