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A Modern Uprising
A Modern Uprising — Radoje Domanović. A dream carries the narrator a century backwards, but the people and institutions he finds are those of his own day. Ottoman rule and modern bureaucracy occupy the same streets. This deliberate mismatch turns a historical question, how a people might rise against oppression, into an examination of habits that make action endlessly postponable.
Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · AudiobookThe Abolition of Passions
The Abolition of Passions — Radoje Domanović. A country has ten good men and a population seething with dangerous passions. Reading newspapers, building schools, helping the poor and buying flowers all appear in its catalogue of misconduct. Domanović lets the accusations accumulate in the sober language of official reports until ordinary civic life itself looks like a conspiracy.
Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · AudiobookThe Dead Sea
The Dead Sea — Radoje Domanović. The narrator begins with his anxious aunt, a woman capable of discovering mortal danger in a stone, a meal or a trip to church. Her solicitous voice becomes the starting point of a much larger inquiry: what happens when caution ceases to protect life and instead prevents it from being lived? Schoolroom lessons, political procedure and everyday conversation gradually acquire the same stifling rhythm.
Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · AudiobookThe Leader
The Leader — Radoje Domanović. The Leader is a satirical short story about people who leave a barren homeland in the hope of finding a better life. They choose an unknown man to guide them, taking his silence as proof of wisdom. Domanović follows the process by which ordinary hope becomes unconditional obedience, and a community learns to justify each new disaster.
Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · AudiobookThe People Will Gild It All
The People Will Gild It All — Laza Lazarević. Two men wait for an overdue steamboat on the Sava. Blagoje the coppersmith expects his son home from the war; Captain Tanasije Jeličić is waiting for his wife. For each, the boat’s arrival promises an answer to questions he can scarcely bear any longer. Conversation, silence, memories and mistaken sounds fill the hours.
Laza LazarevićShort storyeBook · Audiobook