Лучшие книги Даши Дрндич

Junak novog romana Daše Drndić EEG igra svoju vlastitu partiju šaha, crnim figurama. Iako zna da ne može pobijediti, nastavlja riskirati jer ta je igra jedino što ga istinski zanima. Bez obzira na to je li u Rovinju, Rijeci, Zagrebu, Beogradu, Parizu, Toskani, Rigi ili pak Tirani, Ban pripovijeda priče onih koji ih sami nisu mogli, znali, smjeli ili htjeli ispričati, jer one su sastavni dio njegove beskonačne partije šaha.

Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the War as part of Himmler's clandestine 'Lebensborn' project, which strove for a 'racially pure' Germany.
Haya's reflection on her Catholicized Jewish family's experiences deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, as well as witness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. A broad collage of material is assembled, and the lesser-known horror of Nazi occupation in northern Italy is gradually unveiled.
Written in immensely powerful language, and employing a range of astonishing conceptual devices, Trieste is a novel like no other. Dasa Drndic has produced a shattering contribution to the literature of our twentieth-century history.

Andreas Ban je pisac i psiholog, nadasve intelektualac prepun empatije, no njegov se svijet već godinama urušava, a kada odlazi u bijednu mirovinu i sazna da je bolestan iznova sagledava krhotine svoga života i života svojih prijatelja. U borbi s bolešću i starošću Andreas Ban je i ciničan i moćan, i dok prekapa po vlastitoj prošlosti susreće se s pričama obespravljenih, proganjanih, bespomoćnih... te se pritom beskompromisno razračunava s najrazličitijim tabuima.

U "Belladonni" Daša Drndić ispituje i do krajnjih granica dovodi teme bolesti i (ne)mogućnosti življenja (i umiranja) u današnjem, potpuno dehumaniziranom svijetu i u vremenima kada su starost i bolest nešto sramotno te kada se propagiraju isključivo vječna mladost i bezgranična ljepota.

"Belladonna" je djelo u kojem se isprepliću stvarno i fikcionalno, autobiografsko i izmišljeno, a Andreas Ban je istinski junak našeg doba – on je intelektualac odbačen od društva koje pod krinkom korektnosti zatire mogućnost kritičkog mišljenja.