A Kosovar in my life

The novel "A Kosovar in my life," by the Czech author Marketa Hejkalova, speaks for a Kosovar which met the female narrator at the time of the transition of the Czech Republic and which connects diplomacy at the time of transition in Kosovo. Well, in the novel we have a line of love, a love abandoned, which is placed in a specific geographical space and in a real historical and political background. The novel "A Kosovar in my life," by Marketa Hejkalova is a story that speaks attractive status quo people and countries; this is a novel that speaks about Jolana, a Czech woman, who is pregnant with a Kosovar who abandons her, and, consequently, she abandons her child. Later, the same woman married to a Serb, while her abandoned son become a television star, and in the last pages of the story appear again next age Kosovar, but with the same passion. Thus, this novel with intrigue as modern as the classics, history shows intimate, private and public. Filled with love and politics, as articulated Hejkalova’s novel nostalgic discourse on the personal and ironic discourse on social and political plan. Also, written as proof of life of a Czech woman, it can be read as a confession for "her" Kosovar and our Kosovo. Novel of Hejkalova stands for the technique of montage, the ellipses of film, dramatic lines and absurd atmosphere, so whenever you feel like you're reading film scripts, again if you see a performance of theater of the absurd, while political dialogue as requiring a alienation the emotional line to achieve the function of epic drama, so not to touch the public emotionally, but to force him to see a rational art, so that the message in the bottle thrown by the author to make hands to open. Translated by Kestrine Peza

Author: Marketa Hejkalova

Title: A Kosovar in my life

Pages: 204

Year: 2013

Price: 6 €