Israel-Iran conflict (1)
There are moments in history when reality resembles literature so much that it becomes difficult to make a clear distinction between the world around us and the phantasmagoria enclosed between the covers of books. In a novel-dystopia Atlantis, through the story of the downfall of human civilization - identified with the mythical island of the same name, Borislav Pekić offers a complex and above all pessimistic philosophical elaboration of the key features of modern society, which does not lose its power even nearly four decades after the publication of this book. On the contrary, the chaos in which the world finds itself today further actualizes Pekić's insights and offers us the key to a better understanding of the increasingly less comprehensible - and even less reasonable - events that we euphemistically call geopolitics
