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Kiklop (2000)

by Ranko Marinković(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 1

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review 1: When I was in 1st grade of high school, the older ones were saying to me that this book is so tough to read, and I always thought "Oh my, what's waiting for me?!"#$ Then came my turn to read this book. Honestly,I totally enjoyed since the first page. I used to read so many books about the life during the WW2 in some big cities like Paris, London, etc. but finally I found the first book which place and rime of action were situated in my hometown. I was able to feel all that melancholy and ZOO-polis term and idea on very very familiar places. An author brought all that prewar atmosphere and states of mind of very interesting characters so realistic that I found myself in one awkward moment of weird nostalgia. Which I never felt again in some other book with similar theme. I ... moredefinitely recommend this book to anyone. It's not easy to read (like reading the book during Sun bathing on the beach), takes a lots of time to thinking, but if I have to summarize this in 1 word - masterpiece!
review 2: Cyclops was originally published in Croatia. It takes place in Zagreb and could easily be compared to Ulysses, the Odyssey, and even Hamlet. Marinković captures the essence of the crowds, the shysters, and seedy neighborhoods. He dissects Zagreb on the eve of war with the same precision as Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. It is anti-war in sentiment— and was a prelude to similar books like Slaughter House Five, written in the 1960s with WWII as the setting. less

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