Using various narrative
techniques, intelligent humor and subtle irony, the protagonists
summarize the chances they have missen and talk about their premonitions
of the new ones to come. In doing so, they live out their stories and
those of other people, looking for meaning in the past in order to
understand the present. We read about the main character leaving his
bombed country, dabbling in a variety of odd jobs throughout Europe,
composing and decomposing his own personality which becomes clearest in
the gap between the thingsexpected and the things done.For The Russian
Window Dragan Velikić received the two most important literary awards in
Serbia and ex-Yugoslavia - the NIN Award and teh Meša Selimović Award
in 2007.
