Auron

The novel Auron incorporates the golden ratio into its conceptual structure in a completely new way (in the proportions of chapters and narrators), but at the same time it thematizes the golden ratio and its appearances in everyday life in different and interesting ways. The tense plot will reveal the main character, as well as the reasons, methods and circumstances of the mysterious disappearance of the halo from the statue of St. Mark in the Šibenik Cathedral. Extremely intriguing contemporary male and female characters are presented in the most unusual life circumstances through which their family, emotional and professional inclinations, needs, frustrations and aspirations speak. Secrets and loves, at first glance unrelated lives, in the dynamic plot of the novel form a network of fatefully connected persons and characters. The action takes place in Osijek and Šibenik, but also in other world metropolises. Likewise, although it is a description of the modern era, the reader of the novel travels through the centuries. Since the main character Auron lives only one preoccupation – beauty – through it he becomes a spokesperson for numerous artists, works of art and art itself. This gives the novel the characteristics of a virtual box that informs about numerous gold-cut works of art: the Baška Tablet, the Church of St. Lucia in Jurandvor, the pyramids of Giza, the Mona Lisa, Picasso's Self-Portrait, various musical achievements, as well as literary works whose attractiveness has written the history of the written word. By criticizing the consumer society, SMS alienation, life according to prescribed patterns, and the imposed cult of the body and corporeality, Auron brings a true code of beauty and highlights the unique personality of each individual, including the reader himself. The active right margin of the text makes this novel the first illustrated right margin novel in contemporary Croatian literature. Auron is an ideal read for a wide range of readers - from those who want only a good and interesting story, to those inclined to unusual storytelling, to artists, students of scientists and curious individuals inclined to get to know and understand the world in which we live.