Kontraendorfin

The narrator is the painter Stojković, an invented figure and the secret friend of Ivo Andrić. Around him, real people such as Andrić, the painter Mira Glavurtić, the French physician and philosopher Georges Canguilhem and the poet Desanka Maksimović become literary functions rather than portraits. Facts serve as pieces of a game: there are levitations, repeated resurrections and couplings between people who could never have met. The novel takes apart Serbian myths, dethroning national greats and bards from Andrić to Đilas and exposing the self-destructive megalomania of the national mentality, through hyperbole and long, breathless sentences.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

292 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia

First published

2020 by Laguna

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9788652137725 (original)

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