Bernardijeva soba

The narrator, Pišta Petrović, is a voice from the margins who withdraws from society, sure that only isolation keeps him in touch with real life. He keeps trying to shed every kind of shell, even his body, and at one point thinks of changing his sex. His flat, inherited from a strict father, a military doctor, and a mother who left to live with hippies, has become a refuge for failed politicians arguing with homeless people who drop by; the only furniture he feels is his own is the work of the famous designer Bernard Bernardi. He leaves it and climbs into the shell of a wrecked Mercedes in a car park, which works like a time machine: inside it he remembers, and imagines the Adriatic coast road and a cold, endless ocean.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

135 pages in the original

Set in

Serbia

First published

2011 by Kulturni centar Novog Sada

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9788679312105 (original)