Životinjsko carstvo

The narrator, a marginal participant in the Belgrade student protests of 1968 and a deeply shaken conformist, worries that his brief rebellion will harm his prospects. In the early 1970s he does his military service in the Kozara barracks in Banja Luka, where the other soldiers ironically nickname him Tiger. There he meets again Miša Vrabac, an acquaintance from Belgrade who was one of the stars of the student revolt, and the dark, enigmatic and violent Dimitrije Donkić, who pulls him into a small secret circle he rules with a kind of charismatic power. Donkić's real target soon turns out to be Vrabac. Inside the closed world of the army, the narrator, who admits he is a coward, watches how violence is justified in the name of loyalty.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

126 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bosnia & Herzegovina, early 1970s

First published

2014 by Čarobna knjiga

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9788677023423 (original)