Within the project “Tales of Belgrade” on Wednesday November 14th 7pm at Nebojša Tower, a novel “The excessive use of force” by Vida Crnčević Basara will be presented. Vladislav Vojnović will talk about the book.

“The excessive use of force” published by “Dereta” attracted huge attention of the literary audience and critics. Through a kind of an omni-story, taking place in different parts of Belgrade, the writer portrays the events of nearly two decades ago and takes the readers back to not so distant, but on the other hand, not so pretty past.

“While reading a novel ”The excessive use of force” by Vida Crnčević Basara, written in literary omnibus technique, we get an impression of witnessing a dramatic exciting reality show from the late eighties through the entire nineties , which we witnesses and were the victims of. Throughout this story of emphasized urban iconography, numerous ephemeral class representatives are circulating there at Karaburma and at the park on Students Square – from losers to sophisticated crooks and imbecilic and high and mighty rulers of the situation and the moment. Punk rockers, heavy metal fans, junkies, lesbians compose a whole sublime megalopolitan chaos, which lives fully, intensely and “cardinally”. Their story is turned into a convincing reading material that, regardless of full-blooded verismo, seeks not the mirroring from the reality, but blood, sweat and tears.

On an example of a family saga Vida Crnčević Basara aswirls a huge space of meanings, such are restored sensual, spiritual, physical, inquiring and self-inquiring, individual and collective human attributes. Principal paradigm is the consecrated origination of the theme, dramaturgy, characters and relationships, memories and reality, anxiety and consequences. Within the family and within a certain close community the war is treated suggestively and stylistically convincing, by well-differentiated characters, their fates that are different by personal outcome, and by following, so to say, a subtle authorial narrative strategy. In prose this is achieved very rarely and only a few writers have succeeded.” – said Zoran Bognar, literary critic.