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Doctor Subota, the head of the madhouse in Valjevo, recounts his arrival in Serbia and his wanderings from the battlefields to the asylum, the enthusiasms and defeats of a sensitive intellectual. Forever enchanted by the world of his youth, whose emblem is Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain and its characters, he moves through the reality of the early twentieth century confused and wavering. Through his letters to important people and his search for a lost pedal orchestra he is really looking for the beauty and harmony that have vanished from the world.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

334 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, early 20th century

First published

2004 by Narodna knjiga – Alfa

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9788633117319 (original)