![]() She wakes up in Villete, a famous and much-feared lunatic asylum where ‘genuine madmen’ mingle with those merely accused of madness or pretending to be mad. However, after she takes the overdose Veronika gains consciousness to find that she has been temporarily saved. This letter would be her ‘suicide note’, even though she cannot give the real reasons for her decision to die: that everything in her life was the same, sex was no great shakes, marriage a farce, and once youth had passed it would all be downhill and that the world was all wrong and she was powerless to put it right. As she is slowly dying she is annoyed to read an article in a computer magazine which asks, “Where is Slovenia?” So, she decides to write a note to the magazine explaining that Slovenia is one of the five republics into which the former Yugoslavia has been divided. The main character is Veronika, a 24-year-old librarian in Ljubljana, Slovenia, of usually passive nature, who decides to say goodbye “to what people called Life” and takes an overdose of tablets. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it’s the one that has become adapted to the desires of society as a whole.” When Dr Igor, who runs a mental hospital, is asked, what is reality, he replies: “It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It is not just about suicide versus the value of living but looks at society’s arbitrary construct on the definition of madness. ![]() ![]() This is a neat little story which leaves a lasting aftertaste in the mind. ![]()
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