Feliks

An old swindler who has gone through life alone receives a totally unexpected caller one night. The visitor is the son he left decades earlier, and in the single night they ever spend together the son attempts a dialogue with his father that becomes a desperate search for meaning. Written like a thriller, with an absurd, Gogolian plot, short sentences and a narrator who reveals himself only late, the novel varies the biblical theme of father and son. Two anti-heroes who reach their aims through lies and tricks become romantic figures in a world where truth and lies have grown relative, and by dawn on a Belgrade pavement the son who had aimed a pistol at his father is holding his head.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

228 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia

First published

2007 by Via print

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9788686447081 (original)