Prijatelji sa Kosančićevog venca 7
Tragic and comic, poetic and bizarre, melancholic and grotesque intertwine on the pages of this book. For this novel, Selenić received the NIN award for 1980.
"In the novel for which the author received the NIN award in 1980, about the taboo friendship of a Kosovo Albanian, Istref Veri, and the last descendant of the old Serbian, Belgrade Hadžislavković family, Vladan Hadžislavković, an Oxford student, the dogmatism and fanaticism of one (class , ideological type) towards the exclusivity of a different ideology, which is based on resistance to everything that is primitive and destructive to civil culture." Bojana Stojanović-Pantović
"Presenting the readers with an exciting picture of inevitable and intractable conflicts between people of different civilizational interests and different cultural levels, Selenić consistently points out in his novels that the guarantee of human vitality lies in man's ability to perceive diversity and understand the other and the different, but that the processes of this understanding carry tragic misunderstandings and conflicts." Ljubiša Jeremic
"The novel Friends is a kind of forced retreat from the open confrontation of two opposing morals on the topic of the unnatural - and therefore unsustainable - attachment of two opposite worlds: a static and languid bourgeois intellectual with decadent and unhealthy tendencies, and a dynamic, healthy Albanian boy, who from a sawyer, under the gentle hand of his loving protector, he grows into a man of the new age." Predrag Palavestra
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