Montenegro
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Kršenković-Brković, Dragana (text)
Pajović-Živković, Suzana (illus.)
Duh manitog jezera i druge bajke (The spirit of the raving lake and
other tales)
Podgorica: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, 2010. – 156 p.
(Series: Zublja: crnogroska književnost za djecu i mlade)
ISBN 978-86-303-1447-6
Good – Evil – Fairy tale – Drama
Since their first publication in 1996, Dragana Kršenković-Brković’s
fairy-tale dramas have become her trademark and even been turned into
required reading at primary schools in Montenegro. In these four new dramas,
the author makes good and evil meet in a typical fairy-tale manner and
weaves the resulting conflict into different scenarios: into a mystical
underwater world adventure, a Scandinavian saga, a Zorro-legend, and the
present time, in which the son of a business magnate fights for a more just
society. Thanks to their dialogue form and their classical dramatic
structure of exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution, the texts
achieve a quality of immediacy that makes them resemble fantasy film
sequences; thus they create an enormous reading-maelstrom that readers can
hardly resist. (Age: 7+)