Balkan Library

"Brethren", Goran Petrovich

© Goran Petrovich, 2003
Translator: Zela Georgieva
First edition, 2005. Serbian. 142 pages. Price 2,5 euro

The publication is a selection of two books of stories by one of the writers of most vivid imagination and expressive language in Serbian literature. No one can deny that Goran Petrovich’s stories are nothing less than his novels, which brought him great popularity and in a very short time were translated and are still translated into a number of languages. Against the background of today’s reality, dominated by aggression, unscrupulous material interests, and vanity, the world of these stories is an oasis preserving and defending the spiritual values, romanticism, and belief in a more dignified meaning of human existence. Their topic is often daily life, but seen from an unpredictable angle stressing some unusual detail, some triviality, which obtains particular significance and acquires symbolic importance. The author manages in a very discreet way to unleash the rudimentary impulses of the human soul and open the eyes of the readers to the miracle called life. From a stylistic point of view the stories in this book maintain with an unfeigned reverence the classical and contemporary tradition, combined with a brand new postmodern sensitivity and expressiveness.