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Bohumil Hrabal, a Czech writer known for his lyrical grotesque and humor, in his novel The Town Where Time Stood Still evokes childhood in the small town of Libeň (part of Prague), where time seems to stand still in a magical but melancholic world.
The novel represents a journey into an alternative world – a world that we all belong to from time to time, but of which we would not want to be a part, a world of paranoia and alienation that we are not entirely sure is just an alternative or the bare tr
The disturbing and emotionally exhausting story tells about a painter who, with her artistic passion, opposed the expectations imposed on her by her parents.
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.
As in Velikić's previous novels, the heroes weave analogous and often intertwined destinies of frustrated Central European citizens and intellectuals, the topography is very diverse, but also recognizable.
Before us is a sociopolitical novel with a complex anti-utopian vision, which with its mature, colorful, charismatic and striking characters, as well as the original composition, not without an ironic deviation, gives a fresco of an alternative developmen