Povratak Filipa Latinovića

After 'twenty-three time units' in a psychiatric hospital, the painter Filip Latinović, whose name and much else are borrowed from Krleža's classic novel, comes home and tries to find his bearings in a Croatia of wild capitalism and the new state. In the sanatorium he learned to keep his memories as if behind glass. Outside, he takes masochistic pleasure in sessions with Ksenija, a lover with several men who is in fact a professional dominatrix, and signs a contract with her under a slave's name, Gregor. His other home is his family, where a newly discovered biological father turns out to be the lover of both his mother and his sister. The people he meets, with names as in Krleža, only deepen his confusion, and masochism appears less as a taste for pain than as a way of answering society's rigid laws with irony.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

223 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2013 by OceanMore

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789533320083 (original)