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The autobiography of a vagabond, a kind of bildungsroman in which typical Balkan melancholic fantasy intertwines with harrowing and lucid reflections on exile.
Following in the literary footsteps of Cortázar (amazing inventiveness, skillful metaphors), Perec (a penchant for lists and inventories), Fante or Bukowski (empathy for the weak and marginalized, the eccentric and the lonely – as well as a penchant for hard liquor), Čolić speaks in a stimulating way about the migrant's sense of abandonment. While he looks back at institutions, administration, psychiatrists, writers and women – who, although they occupy an important place in the book, bring only frustration and longing instead of happiness – his narrative resonates with the hopeless inner wanderings of those who will never truly find their home.
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