Turistička destinacija
A tourist destination deals with the question of the destination, the question of where we are going, as well as the idea of tourists. A tourist is someone who doesn't know how things will unfold in the future, who is just visiting, just passing through
Rui Zink is in fashion. That is the inevitable truth. He started with the television show Night of Evil Languages, continued writing chronicles for the daily newspaper Independente... and then an experimental theater group from the University of Aveiro, delighted by Zink's stories Reality now in color, made a theater play based on that book.
In the daily newspaper Visao, March 7, 1996.
Rui Zink is a storyteller who plunges into the chaos and absurdity of everyday life, a sharp satirist, a master of irony - irony that sometimes backfires on the author himself - and a skilled craftsman of the Portuguese language. His works reflect the complexity of literature and life, the meaninglessness of institutions and their hypocrisy, the anxiety of the moment, love and sex, family and memory, the blindness of the media, the carefree ignorance of many people and, not least, the constant presence of death, which usually arrives in a stupid and funny way.
From a review by Helena Vasconcelos, 2005.
In one of these tourist programs - seven days of half-board in a country ravaged by war, where the beaches are mined and full of shells, where kidnappings of tourists are a daily occurrence - the protagonist of these pages, Servajit Duvla, to the readers Greg (tourist pseudonym), or according to the local taxi driver, Gereg, due to difficulties in pronunciation, finds himself. We learn that, due to some mishaps related to his son's moral honor, Greg paid for that tourist destination for one reason only: he wants to die, to kill himself.
Pedro Neves, February 3, 2009.
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