Fikcija

Ivana Bodrožić’s new collection of stories “Fiction” is unlike any other book about women. When they are alone in the car, when they are raising children, when they are pole dancing or thinking about old age – women in an incredible, unique way, shape everyday life and defy fate. “Who am I really? And what part of me is me… is it my skill, my music, my child, is it my thought, is it my hope for another love, is it the blue iris next to the headboard, maybe it is the brain because without it there is no thought, without it there is no heart, but it also changes over time…” Is it perhaps the writer’s desk as her island of freedom and last line of defense? Fiction, a book of stories deeply connected by a fine narrative armature, brings sixteen truths about women who achieve their victories and defeats in everyday life, while also trying to answer the central question of literature: what is the fiction we believe in, and what is the reality that shapes and breaks us? In this gap, stories are created that are truer than reality, when the heroines are alone in the car, when they are raising children, worried about climate collapse, anxious in the anonymity of the virtual world, when they are pole dancing, waiting for a moment of pleasure, usurping language and the realm of sexuality, thinking about old age or gossiping about a colleague. With a lot of humor and without pathos, Ivana Bodrožić in Fiction writes a complex mosaic of female experience in layers and with strength.