Kao divlja zver: Teškoće s ljudima i sa stvarima

Like a Wild Beast: Troubles with People and Things is a prose work of strong inner tension, shaped through chapters whose titles already open up a space of fear, siege, break-in, and disorder. Through a series of chapters - from "Eye to Eye with E. T." and "Fever" to "Fear in the Bones," "The Walled-Up Window," and "The Break-in" - the narrative line is built through a series of intense psychological and symbolic situations.

At the center of such a work is not only a "wild beast" as a metaphor for untamable strength, but also a man brought to the limits of his own endurance. Danojlić shapes an atmosphere of anxiety, threat, and an inner clash with forces that are simultaneously external and internal. Titles such as "The Door with Seven Locks," "Head Against the Wall," or "The Walled-Up Window" evoke motifs of confinement, obstacles, and the impossibility of a way out, while "A Bargain Between Mediocre Spirits and a Permissive Force" also suggests an ironic, socially critical dimension.

For this reason, the book can be read as a psychologically dense prose about fear, pressure and rebellion, but also as an allegorical record of a world in which freedom and identity are constantly threatened. The value of the work lies in its dense atmosphere and suggestive images, which have an unsettling and symbolically powerful effect. Like a Wild Beast is a book that does not calm the reader, but introduces him to the space of inner fever, anxiety and fractures of human consciousness.