Summary
Borivoj Radaković: Viruses
Viruses is a novel about the intimacy of a fifty-year-old, about marriage, relationships between people, love, work, erotica, art... against disease, death, violence, politics, war. The main character Boris falls into apathy, from which he is pulled out by falling in love and the desire for action and change. Consequences are...consequences.
A novel about a man whose wife suffers from uterine cancer. At the same time, his computer is attacked by a virus. Drawing a parallel between a computer virus and a virus that causes cancer, as well as between the masculine and feminine noun "pain", that is, physical and mental suffering, he thinks about the human body and soul, but also about language as a body full of viruses, about viruses in the broadest, metaphorical, sense as the cause of the dissolution not only of the human body, but also of culture, that is, the spirit. In that gloomy atmosphere, the narrator sees the warmth of the relationship between a man and a woman as the only true refuge, love, connection and union that surpasses sexual interest.
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