Stotina godina (antikronika)

In the novel Stotina godina (One Hundred Years), Dario Harjaček builds a layered “anti-chronicle” of the Zagreb district of Trešnjevka, following its inhabitants through a hundred years of turbulent history – from the 1930s to the present day. Through the voice of the narrator, the antiquarian Bach, the stories of artists, priests, workers, scoundrels and dreamers intertwine, people of different beliefs and destinies who together form a living tapestry of a space and time.

Harjaček skillfully combines personal and collective destinies, showing how ideologies – fascism, communism and neoliberalism – are refracted through the intimate lives of the characters. The story is permeated with documentary elements and poetic passages, so the reader witnesses the history of the city through the experience of its ordinary, but strong people.

Without moralizing or pathos, Harjaček shows Trešnjevka as the heart of Zagreb: a place where everyday life merges with myth, and small human stories become a mirror of a hundred years of social and historical changes.