β Scribed by Aleksandar Tisma
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The Use of Man starts with an unexpected discovery. World War II is ending. Sredoje LazukiΔ has been fighting all through it. Now, as one of the victorious Partisans, he has come home to Novi Sad. He visits the house he grew up in. Strangers nervously show him around. He looks up the mother of Milinko, his best friend. Milinko's girlfriend, Vera, was the daughter of a Jew, a bookish businessman. Her house stands empty and open. Venturing in, Sredoje is surprised to find the diary of the German tutor that Milinko, Vera, and he all shared, FrΓ€ulein, who died on the operating table just before the war. Here, however, in a cheap notebook in Vera's old room, is a record of FrΓ€ulein's lonely days, with the sentimental caption PoΓ©sie. . . .
The diary survived. Sredoje survived. Vera and Milinko have survived too. But what survives? A few years back Sredoje, Vera, and Milinko were teenagers, struggling to make sense of life. Life, they now...
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