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Glasnik i Razdvajanje: The Instability of Reality
Dario Šarec's paired novels use fantasy elements — most notably black and white rabbits as archetypal symbols — to destabilize reality and suggest its stability was always an illusion. The review credits the short-sentence, cinematic style with strong readability, but faults occasional Hollywood clichés and overly explicit dialogue. Ultimately it finds the books work as engaging thrillers yet retreat into safe genre conventions rather than sustaining true literary disruption.
- Science fiction
- Contemporary fiction
Esej o noći: Darkness as a Return to the Self
Marko Pogačar's Esej o noći is a genre-defying text — part travelogue, memoir, criticism, and poetry — built on the idea that night, not day, is the universe's primordial state. The review reads it as timely resistance to a culture of constant visibility, praising its dense, metaphor-rich prose leavened by well-placed humor. It emerges as a demanding but rewarding work that rewards a reader's full attention.
- Poetry
- Essay
Svijet koji sam izabrala: A Life in the Basement
Kalina Maleska's award-winning novel follows Leona's descent into a basement apartment as a literal and figurative image of women's precarity under patriarchal control and everyday violence. The review praises its precise, unsensational social realism as among the author's most mature work. It notes, however, that supporting characters stay underdeveloped and that the book diagnoses conditions sharply without opening a clear path toward transformation.
- Women's writing
- Macedonian literature
- Contemporary fiction