Novak illustrates the complexity of the philosophical concept of truth (and lie) with a heterogenous structure, composed of five chapters arranged in a non-chronological order. Each of them contemplates different versions of truth, or more precisely, they witness changes in protagonist’s existential truth in regard to the beholder and to the moment in time that this truth is perceived.
Ljubica Matek | Kultura | Zavod za proučavanje kulturnog razvitka (RS)
Novak wrote an exceptional story, tenebrous like the heavy November fog on the river Mura. The beauty hidden in its cruel reality and masterful writing is mesmerizing and pushes the reader to the extremes – form laugh to tears and horror.
Damjan Zorc | Peripetije
Memory and suicide are two inexplicable phenomena: they both deny the existence and reread it. Between memory and suicide awaits lie, as a ritual and a practice in which healing and regression meet. Apparition of ghosts only emphasizes that ambivalence: the ominous Hešto and Pujto will partake in ‘the grammar of disorder’ inside Matija’s mind, but also an inevitable social purgative
Vladislava Gordić Petrović | Behar - Časopis za književnost i društvena pitanja
