Hardcover, 232 pages
Slovenian language
Published 2016 by Cankarjeva Založba.
"In France, in the near future, a man works in academia. Not motivated by teaching, he expects a quiet life, studying historical dramas. However, political forces have caused the current goverment to collapse. This implosion doesn't cause a real revolution is a nightmare. The author is a visionary, taking the reader to difficult and slippery ground. His looks at an aging civilization with poetry, humor and fatalistic melancholy. This is a gripping political and moral tale."
Leta 2022. Francijo vsakodnevno pretresajo teroristični napadi in rasni nemiri, o katerih mediji vztrajno molčijo; govori se o državljanski vojni; Judje množično zapuščajo Francijo, potem ko se v drugi krog predsedniških volitev prebije Mohammed Ben Abbes iz Muslimanske bratovščine, kajti zdi se, da bodo socialisti raje podprli slednjega kot desničarsko Nacionalno fronto – Francija je pred popolnim političnim in družbenim preobratom. Vse to neprizadeto spremlja François, univerzitetni predavatelj v srednjih letih, ki živi …
"In France, in the near future, a man works in academia. Not motivated by teaching, he expects a quiet life, studying historical dramas. However, political forces have caused the current goverment to collapse. This implosion doesn't cause a real revolution is a nightmare. The author is a visionary, taking the reader to difficult and slippery ground. His looks at an aging civilization with poetry, humor and fatalistic melancholy. This is a gripping political and moral tale."
Leta 2022. Francijo vsakodnevno pretresajo teroristični napadi in rasni nemiri, o katerih mediji vztrajno molčijo; govori se o državljanski vojni; Judje množično zapuščajo Francijo, potem ko se v drugi krog predsedniških volitev prebije Mohammed Ben Abbes iz Muslimanske bratovščine, kajti zdi se, da bodo socialisti raje podprli slednjega kot desničarsko Nacionalno fronto – Francija je pred popolnim političnim in družbenim preobratom. Vse to neprizadeto spremlja François, univerzitetni predavatelj v srednjih letih, ki živi razočarano, osamljeno življenje zahodnega potrošnika.
Roman Podreditev je pripoved o iskanju smisla, inteligentna politična (anti)utopija in uničujoča satira, ki razkriva, da ljudi poganja zgolj iskanje egoističnega užitka, vse drugo so nepomembne podrobnosti.
Not because the scenario is impossible or the issue not to be discussed, but I remember mostly sex scenes and misogynist attitude from the main character which seem to justify the end point. Probably did not get the irony,
