My Family's Role in the World Revolution
5 hrs. 36 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Bora Cosic
Author
Bora Cosic
Narrator
Alexander Aravushkin
Narrator
Alexander Aravushkin
Description
Bora Čosić is one of the most prominent Serbian and Croatian authors of the 20th century. His novel “The Role of My Family in the World Revolution” is built like a literary mosaic that a little boy assembles: with childish directness he retells stories about his family.
In their home something was always happening. In autumn, his mother began to cry. His father carried scraps of fabric in a suitcase. Unmarried aunts handed all their money to street musicians. His grandfather constantly joked about the people around him. And then German troops entered Yugoslavia—and Uncle “turned on the gramophone to drown out the screams.”
Milorad Pavić believed that the sign of a truly good book is the ability to open it on any page and start reading right away. “The Role of My Family in the World Revolution” is exactly the kind of novel.
The edition also includes “Musil’s Notebook”—a surrealist novella again about family and everyday life. Here Čosić once more uses the carnival way of writing, paying tribute to the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin.
In their home something was always happening. In autumn, his mother began to cry. His father carried scraps of fabric in a suitcase. Unmarried aunts handed all their money to street musicians. His grandfather constantly joked about the people around him. And then German troops entered Yugoslavia—and Uncle “turned on the gramophone to drown out the screams.”
Milorad Pavić believed that the sign of a truly good book is the ability to open it on any page and start reading right away. “The Role of My Family in the World Revolution” is exactly the kind of novel.
The edition also includes “Musil’s Notebook”—a surrealist novella again about family and everyday life. Here Čosić once more uses the carnival way of writing, paying tribute to the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin.
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