Radić, Vesna - Tendrilopolous
Rado abandons wife Branka for the English rose, Margaret. Accompanies her to England where he dies under suspicious circumstances.
The two women, Branka and Margaret, exchange a flurry of letters.
Asking, accusing, venting, flirting, libeling, competing, threatening.
This novella is uproariously funny, along with vulgar, graphic-pornographic, crude, and yet somehow sweetly revealing.
Vesna Radić is a self-confessed pseudonym, although the writer strikes me as a construct. I wonder if behind the façade is a male hand, or hands. Time and again, a clipped phrase, a chopped sentence, had me thinking, “only a guy would phrase it that way”.
Nevertheless, this is a hilarious read, a shaggy dog in and out.
Another one of a kind absurd gem from Corona/Samizdat.