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26.12.2011.

GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL

Olja Savičević Ivančević: Goodbye Cowboy (Algoritam, Zagreb, 2010)

By: Nikola Đoković

The tile of the novel ‘’Goodbye Cowboy’’ hints at the sentimental, nostalgic and even bitter-sweet taste. The ecstatic-ethical dominance in the novel corresponds with a longing for the old idealised, ‘’not-for-sale’’ (western) type of hero in today’s civilisation. The absence of this figure in the ‘’West’’ that presented Hollywood, the mythical workshop (that spread the myth of a hero of the time past to the rest of the world through its movie icons), as well as in Croatia, that presents the East in ‘’transition’’ in comparison to the ‘’developed’’ West.

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