This BIG, Bumfuzzled World

From almost commonplace situations and atmospheres, the authoress discovers and presents us with deep layers of reality, seemingly invisible, telling us a story. Her themes come from opportunities and challenges from the life as we know it, as well as bureaucracy, technocracy, and many other “acies” of modern society. Her way of telling a story is special and striking. It’s humorous and frisky but moderate and serious when major life themes are involved. She paints them skillfully and with measure, the way they are, both bitter and funny. Đ. V. Rožić enters into the characters of her protagonists and analyzes them plastically with a knowledge of the psychology of every personality. She manages to identify with them, transmitting it to the readership. While reading these stories, a reader feels the diversity of spiritual structure of her dramatis personae, and the sensibility of a petty-bourgeois manner of life and its mentality. Irony and symbolism, which she uses creating her characters in their interpersonal relationships, tell us about the skill of writing. The author often criticizes society but it’s more to amuse herself and her readers than to provoke and to fix things. She makes fun out of the society’s flaws, pointing her finger at them to ridicule them, which is thus fulfilling the social function of humor and satire. She starts her book with a paradox, “Yuck, you are sane!” and shows us the inversion of what is today accepted as normal and sane in this upside down world and its constant changes. The world where a common man finds it difficult to navigate. ~ Ljubomir Radovančević, Ph.D, Zagreb, March 2011