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“The Angel of the Assassination” (title translated by AI)
Svetislav Basara (born 1953)
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Speaking from the other side of the grave, Archduke Franz Ferdinand dictates his version of the Sarajevo assassination to a posthumous secretary, Ferdinand Berchtold. Their impossible dialogue mocks the familiar explanations of how the First World War began, and spares no one: Balkan sloppiness and warmongering are ridiculed as much as Germanic decadence and arrogance. The archduke even imagines Gavrilo Princip, celebrated in Serbia on every anniversary, as his twin in one and the same tragedy, both of them having lost their heads for nothing.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 270 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1914
- First published
- 2015 by Laguna
- Author's age
- 62 when first published
- ISBN
9788652118694 (original)