Will the grotesque humor of this novel help Darko Cvijetić in his job of fixing the world and why is the answer so devastating to all of us?
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When Darko Cvijetić writes, it's as if he's displacing people and their stories from this language to another language, and that's how he arranges them before the face of God.
In Prijedor, a small town in Bosnia, thirty years after World War II, two "skyscrapers" rise – red and blue. In the red sky, the lives of residents of different destinies, nations and religions intertwine.
A piano usually has 88 keys, 52 white and 36 black, from which 88 tones emerge. A pianist usually reads 88 notes. These 88 micro-proses simultaneously constitute one piano and one piano concerto.
This is a collection in which the city becomes an interlocutor, a space whose streets, parks and courtyards become places of encounter (with oneself).
A Little Before Everything, Long Ago We Are is the eleventh collection of poetry by Goran Rem (b. 1958, Osijek), a poet, essayist, literary historian, and member of the Quorum generation in Croatian literature.
Writing in the first person singular, Stojić depicted the life and dreams, experience and fate, defeat and loss of homeland of a generation, a city, an era.