On the Edge

Well, who could expect me to write anything better, having been watching nerd-like in-depth CNN coverage of the Middle-East situation?

Anyway, high time I wrote something bout a Croatian author. There's this book called On the Edge of Reason by the ordinarily rather musty but very clever Miroslav Krleza.

The plot is taking place on the eve of WWII and the main idea is how everyone has a viewpoint, while the sad thing is we are prepared to kill for it. So, ingeniously using the then technological innovation, Krleza makes his character frantically shuffle the radio - the movement of the scale of which presents a new standpoint every milimeter. You move a little - Radio Moscow with its viewpoint; a bit further - another one..

Paranoid and gloomy. But, just out of theatre, where I saw Goodbye, Children, my only comment was how V. Woolf committed suicide during WWII - paranoidly thinking everyone was after her.

As for me, I completely agree with words Krleza puts into the character's mouth while he is watching out of his prison window: moonlight can also be a view.