A NOVEL ABOUT BERLIN
A NOVEL ABOUT BERLIN

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of Slobodan Vladušić’s novel Delusion, in the Prologue, the reader is confronted with numerous secrets. The narrator, who has yet to be discovered, addresses someone: perhaps the reader himself, perhaps the hero who will soon take over the narration, and perhaps himself—and maybe, first of all, each of them, because the novel also has as its theme the doubling, parallels between characters, writing and reading. Themes of identity, freedom, travelling, and trauma are also introduced. Both important for the composition, and also significant on the symbolic level, the novel begins with motifs of sleep and awakening, while the epilogue begins with the opening of the eyes. At the very end there is a hug. The relationship between the voices addressing the reader is also important here.

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