Doppelgänger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the question of "doubles" and how an individual is perpetually caught between their own beliefs and those imposed on them by society. "Artur and Isabella" relates the brief relationship between two elderly people who meet on New Year's Eve – a romantic encounter which turns into a grotesque portrayal of the loneliness of old age. The second story "Pupi" – a strange mirror of the first – centers on the life of a man who spends his time in Belgrade zoo and the city's neglected parks, spouting words of wisdom which no-one hears. Together these tales create the highly original atmosphere for rare insights into the human soul, and the scattered diamonds of truth that Drndić has become famous for.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Daša Drndić was a distinguished Croatian novelist, playwright and literary critic, author of radio plays and documentaries. She studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade, and later obtained a Masters degree in Theatre and Communications from Southern Illinois University in the United States, which she attended with the aid of a Fulbright scholarship. Drndić worked as an editor, a professor of English, and as a TV program editor in Belgrade. She obtained her doctorate at the University of Rijeka in Croatia, where she later taught. She is the author of thirteen novels including Leica Format, Trieste and Belladonna – all published in English translation. For the latter two, she was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 and the EBRD Literature Prize 2018. Daša Drndić died in Rijeka on 5 June 2018.
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