Summary
Stanislav Krakow: Life of a Man in the Balkans
Autobiographical novel of one of the best Serbian writers. From a young and crazy volunteer in the Balkan wars, to an experienced warrior-liberator, Kraków described his exciting and incredible events from that glorious and terrible period with an epic charge, giving Serbian literature an immortal work.
... That life, the life of a Balkan man, took place in a strange vortex of national, religious, ideological, political and social conflicts, passions, mutual destruction, cruel fates, gruesome tragedies, often in the middle of a heroic symphony of exploits and suffering, I want to evoke here...
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Because what I want to evoke is not only my life, it is above all the life of millions of people from the same geographical area and from the same historical epoch, often incomprehensible and unbelievable to those who were outside that space and time.
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