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...Erih Kos. When a great whale is dragged into Belgrade, everyone pays obeisance to it in this hilarious spoof of conformity...
...Erih Kos. A Yugoslavian social satirist shows how everyone mindlessly sings the praise of a great, useless whale when it is lugged into Belgrade...
...Erih Kos. A whale of a social satire by a gifted Yugoslavian who pokes superb fun at conformity-in a Peoples' Republic and everywhere else...
...Rade's ear, warning him that his fellow office workers are about to turn on him. His landlady talks in cipher to his fellow lodger, using "big, strong, black and forceful words, always heavy, coarse, masculine nouns, signifying something huge, strong and powerful, which reminded me of the whale." In horror he finds whales swimming into his own conversation-"a whale of a time," "the Prince of Wales." Martyrdom's Delusion. In this superb social satire, Erih Kos, himself a Yugoslav bureaucrat, dissects the evils of conformity with a fanciful touch that scarcely disguises the depth...
...make a point, he follows Voltaire's example and speaks in Panglossian didactics: "When we do not want to think of something, it is best to forget it." Final Kinship. In Big Mac, moreover, Kos's aim reaches far beyond Yugoslavia's frontiers. When the whale's decay at last turns a pinch-nosed public against him, Rade is still despised-he loses mistress, friends, job and wits. Finally, he feels a kinship with the whale. Big Mac is destroyed, and Rade, who can think of society only as pagan, goes to a hilltop and shouts...