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A masterpiece of Serbian postmodern prose, a witty, intellectual detective, a rare book praised by critics and adored by readers.
"An erudite, a man of encyclopedic knowledge, a passionate writer (a book every year!) Svetislav Basara interests the reader with a detective plot, offers him his own, the skillfully constructed vision of History, but captivates with his witty quips. Imagine Jesus entering Jerusalem on a bicycle. Or the Holy Spirit looking down on a sinful world and seeing only moving crosses. Sherlock Holmes suffered a two-wheeler fiasco or Sigmund Freud meeting members of the Order of Cyclists as part of his medical practice. Basara's imagination does not know its limits but is always camouflaged under careful research - the author sprinkles quotes, historical facts, titles of treatises, details from the biographies of real people, apocryphal theories, and ironic terminology. This technique can be compared to the work of Dan Brown, so popular today, to see the roots of fake news in it, falsified to promote history; in a word, this novel and the entire work of the author is a perfect entry are entering our mixed age" (Andriy Lyubka, cyclist).