Vrijeme laži

Who was Viktor Tausk, and why did he end his life in 1919 in such a strange, double way? The narrator, close to the author, and her friend Tvrtko, a Croatian writer, are both drawn to this forgotten lawyer, journalist and writer turned psychiatrist, one of Freud's most gifted pupils: Tvrtko wants to know what Tausk lived for, she wants to understand his death. The suicide is told at the very start; from there the novel circles back in fragments, jumping across places and decades, through the Vienna where he read law and married, bohemian years as a journalist in Berlin, the circle around Freud and his ordeal as a doctor at the front in the First World War. Around him a web of real and invented people from many countries mixes historical, spy, love and crime fiction.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

226 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia, Austria, early 20th century

Series

Tabu, book 1 · book 2: Bilo nam je tako lijepo!· book 3: Stanje sumraka

First published

2009 by Fraktura

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9789532661224 (original)