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Parallel World is considered Benedikt's boldest and most influential novel, a true pioneering work in which he first publicly presented his "theory of parallel dimensions" which would later become the backbone of his entire oeuvre.
It is a deeply disturbing text, full of emotions and traumatic experiences of a collapsed, imploded urban individual crying out for the meaning of life.
This is a manuscript first of all about yourself, about your own connection with the city, but also about the present and past of Berlin, and that then means about the death that is written into the history of a city that, more than others, grew together
He has marked the contemporary era like few others, and his heroes or "heroes" with their emotional and moral dilemmas, weighed down by existential anxiety and news of cataclysms and possible apocalypses, are closer to us than ever.
The book is composed of 22 chapters, and in the first, introductory chapter, entitled The Ugly Face of Primitivism, Agić explains the reasons and mechanisms of social rejection.
Jadran, a former basketball player, tries together with Anja to see if he can save his marriage, in which everything seems ideal: a good apartment, going out, a son they love... but beneath the surface, dissatisfaction simmers.