When Alija Osmanovic, a Bosnian war orphan who is the protagonist of Knife, goes in search of the identity of his murdered birth-parents, a sense of thwarted justice motivates him, and expresses itself as burning passion for revenge. This is summed up by the novel's title.  The opening chapter describes the massacre of a Serbian village by Muslim Ustase on Christmas Day (January 7) of 1942. The sole survivor is a newborn male infant, spared at the last moment and given to a Muslim woman who lost her husband in the raid. The boy is named Alija, and is raised as a Muslim, and later comes to believe that his family was killed by Serbs. Twenty-one years later, Alija, now a medical student in Sarajevo, discovers that the newspapers are interested in his story. An article about him is published in a Sarajevo daily, and he begins receiving mail. Most of it is sympathetic but unhelpful, although he does receive an enigmatic letter which reads: You are certainly not what you are, nevertheless, you are what you are not. Alija seeks out Sikter Effendi, an eccentric and reclusive Muslim cleric, to help him interpret the enigma. Sikter Effendi, an irascible outsider, is, nevertheless, considered to be honest, because he has suffered at the hands of each regime: Ustase as well as Communist. He has responded by developing a fine sense of disgust for the human race, and he steeps himself in history, trying to untangle the threads of misfortune. But when Alija enters the Effendi s life, a transformation occurs. Sikter Effendi finds a spiritual heir. Through Sikter Effendi s mentorship, Alija discovers the truth: that his heritage is Serbian; that he was born not far away but in the neighboring village; and that his adoptive family was guilty of murdering his birth-family. A crisis of identity ensues. Each possible course of action open to him is bad. How is he to go on?

Knife

Literature & Fiction

Milo Yelesiyevich

Vuk Draskovic

Literary

Serbian Classics Pr

<p>Mislio sam – sećam se – da je Šalupa veštica ogromne utrobe i da su ljudi, koje je deda bacao u more, bili živi, a da su im bile umrle samo ruke i noge. Nisam znao šta je paluba, ko je Campika, odakle mu takvo ime, zašto je gledao u nebo, dok su ljudi tonuli u more, i na koga je gore, iznad oblaka, galamio. U novom romanu Vuka Draškovića stvarnost je neverovatnija od svake fantazije, a košmarna snoviđenja pretaču se u takvu realnost. U životnoj drami glavnog junaka Vidana ogleda se ceo dvadeseti vek Srbije, i doba današnje, i obrisi onoga što će se tek dogoditi. Još dok je bio dete Vidana su priče njegovog dede odnosile na dno mora, pored grčkog ostrvca Vido kraj Krfa, gde bi, među algama i školjkama, sanjao sa zaspalom dedinom vojskom. Odatle, iz tog sna, Vidan je video sve. I vreme prošlo i vreme buduće. Usnuli na dnu mora umiru tek na kraju dvadesetog veka. Njihovi snovi su potopljeni, pobede prometnute u poraze, slava u stid, a kuća u ruševinu, u kojoj vrači sude po kamenom zakonu. „Načinivši korak dalje od Doktora Arona u svet književne imaginacije, Vuk Drašković se zapravo vrtoglavo približio i istorijskoj, i umetničkoj istini o nama, nekadašnjima i sadašnjima.“ Ljiljana Šop</p>

Tamo Daleko

Laguna

Andric je rekao da je dobar pisac onaj ko citaoca iznenadi pisuci o dobro poznatim stvarima. Bio bih srecan ako bih bar malo iznenadio citaoca knjige Via Romana", rekao je Draskovic na promociji. Zanimljivo je da su okupljeni Draskovica pozdravili tradicionalnim pozdravom s mitinga: "Svi! Svi!".   Osnovu sizea romana cine ispovesti dvojice janjicara iz istog sela i iste kuce ali vekovima udaljenih od kojih jedan obozava sultana Osmana i sluzi mu a drugi "bogotvori svog sultana i carstvo zvano Titova Jugoslavija", navodi se u promotivnom materijalu.   Takodje se ukazuje da glavni junak romana Damijan Cavka kroz svoju sudbinu opisuje cetiri veka srpskih posrtanja, od 1602. godine do danasnjih dana.

Via Romana

Novosti

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