S. A Novel about the Balkans

A Croatian journalist published a novel about the Balkans in 1999. Just seven years after Serbian military rolled up Bosnian Muslims and moved them to concentration camps, the prisoners - women and girls, men and boys - received various humiliation. Drakulić called abuse, especially "massive rape" and said "About the group of soldiers who are placing the most intimidating intimidation against groups of other people about rape, the most embarrassing means ... (Penguin Reader's Guide, 8)

But this terrible novel is gentle and some people will say a promising ending because the character S finally begins to reconstruct her human nature by accepting obstetrics. Under the invasion of rapists, S was initially disliking babies growing up in her "like a tumor" which is a "parasite" caused by countless cruel "fathers" (2, 178 ). But after the prisoner exchange transferred her from the room of the rape "women's room" to the refugee camp of Zagreb, the goodwill of others overcame her fear of gradually raped children.

First, the cousin of Zagreb put her in a narrow apartment and released her from infinite cruel but still inhuman "faction" (149). When S gave birth in Stockholm, happened to meet a classmate, this time as a refugee worker, living in S, giving healthy meals and warm clothes and trying to get away from the plan to give up rape for children . It is clear that S needs such kindness as recruitment (170) S continues to struggle for "shame and guilt" being tormented by so many rape victims. I hope to forget S (175), I hope that adopted adoptive mothers and fathers can give children what they can never obtain, that is, "better past" (194) only.

But as her son arrived, S moved instinctively to hide the sleeping child. First, she felt "retracted", but the child felt "completely peaceful" as a child "closing his little fist with a long finger", and it was integrated into maternity. , 197, 199)

When asked about hopeful conclusions in the novel, Drakulić denied "This end is very hopeful" (Guide 8), but rather emphasizes ambiguity. For S and her son, accepting her child will probably change everything in a good way, but Drakulic someday S will tell her son about the "fear" of his father's "truth" Did you want to know? Of course, the combination of mother and son did not change the male compulsive son (109) before shooting them, the gang raped the woman, then erased their cigarettes on the chest of the victims , And in her urination (62, 78)

However, as mentioned above, the novel shows the reality of friendship. In addition, like N, they represent people who work in the kitchen, smuggle warm bread, eat soup to prisoners, endanger the goodness and courage of life (92). This novel is also accompanied by the operation of her abusers of S, including the captain of the camp, courage and the wisdom she can survive (97-102). As Drakulić stated, our "moral responsibility", our humanitarian obligation is another aspect (Guide 3).

From Somalia to Kosovo and Chechen it was "S: Balkan novel" how easily my compassionate sympathy came to my mind whenever the latest television picture turned over me. Go home. This book caused the terrorist incident that was forgotten, a gaze at the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995, the Serbian minority besieged Sarajevo, began to kill the Bosnian Muslim population up and down. In 1993, Croatian journalist Slavenka Drakulic published "Vulcan Express: Fragments Beyond the War". Like Martha Gailhorn in the early war, she sent a temporary dispatch to explain the delicate texture of everyday life from the front desk of the family. She knows that women who want to buy high heels in Sarajevo are dangerous all day long and it is difficult to contact young soldiers who may become her son.

A Croatian journalist published a novel about the Balkans in 1999. Just seven years after Serbian military rolled up Bosnian Muslims and moved them to concentration camps, the prisoners - women and girls, men and boys - received various humiliation. Drakulić called abuse, especially "massive rape" and said "About the group of soldiers who are placing the most intimidating intimidation against groups of other people about rape, the most embarrassing means ... (Penguin Reader 's Guide, 8). But this terrible novel is gentle and some people will say a promising ending because the character S finally begins to reconstruct her human nature by accepting obstetrics. Under her immolation of rapists, S hated the growing baby in her "tumor-like" first, a parasite caused by countless savage "fathers" (2, 178 ).