Summary
Svjetlan Junaković: Allegro ma non troppo
The title of the book Allegro, ma non troppo means "cheerful, but not too much" in Italian. The phrase is often used as an instruction to a performer, a musician on sheet music. The story follows the lives of two characters, a man and a woman, and their everyday life. The pianist, whose life is black and white, boring and repetitive, imagines the life of the female character as perfect, colorful, interesting and unusual. The book thematizes the idea that love encourages idealization, imagination and unrealistic but beautiful reflection of a loved one. This idealization is sometimes so exaggerated that even the wonderful job of a musician, who performs and enjoys music, can (undeservedly) look boring, like an ordinary job.
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