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Diary of Interrupted Days

'Diary of Interrupted Days' combines research on the role of intellectuals in wartime (the subject of an essay and award-winning non-fiction book by Todorovic) with a research inquiry into Eisenstein’s montage of attractions. Every attraction (in Eisenstein’s view of the term) has a documentary background; in this novel such backgrounds are superimposed so as to create a narrative that will be apprehended as fictional and not documentary. This procedure reverses some of the accepted codes of realism, as the aim was to create a form of super realism, a saturated, burning image in which the colours, the emotions and the moves are all large and bold. The reviewer in 'Quill & Quire' observed: ‘Like a postmodern visual artist, Todorovic uses a collage technique to deconstruct – without resorting to the distancing effects of deconstructivism – the linear narratives that we use to define and understand political and military conflicts, narratives that too often leave out the idiosyncracies and personal associations of the combatants and civilians on the ground.'