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Jan 18, 2023

Sara Arsenović, journalist of Radio Belgrade 2 About the author of the romance Nausea is the first novel of the young writer, who attracted the attention of readers and the theater public by winning the Steria award for the dramatic text “Mali ratovi i kabine Zara”. So far, she has published the dramas “Brooklyn and Cats in Containers” and “Celebrations and Black Sheep”. She wrote the scripts for the films “Matura, Rebra, Bele rade i Srce” directed by Gvozden Ilić and “U ramenima” directed by Tara Gajović. In her works, the author deals with women’s relationship to physicality, growing up and trauma. A Romanian The Nin Award jury included “Nausea” in this year’s wider selection. “Nausea” is a novel about not growing up, the theme of which is the classic replacement of the main heroines who come, one from the big city, the other from the province. They said about the book Two girls change places and start living in a new environment for them. The motif of changing places in traditional literature always implies comedic elements, but the heroines of Vida Davidović look at this world with a double view. Through the eyes of global millennials for whom the world has become a very complicated place and through the eyes of a generation locally marked by birth during the traumatic 90s. Nausea: about not growing up seems to follow the footsteps of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, where loves and friendships go out and burn like New Year’s candles and like a New Year’s ball under masks, beneath the appearance of normality, pulses a whole spectrum of hidden feelings and traumas that the heroines will have to deal with. in order to fully unwind the process of growing up. Will it even be possible for them?”, he says Jasmina Vrbavac, literary critic. This is the story of a miraculous life, one that no one has ever lived, you think, then it flashes in a moment, then it takes you back where you didn’t want to go, then it transforms you. One young woman left the big city, another young woman came to the big city. They will infect you with desire, truth, pain and beauty, Milena Marković. Vida Davidović, from the novel “Nausea”: I stood in front of the naked mirror, still feeling that ray of sun burning the hair above my lip. I took off my clothes and looked away from the mirror. I knew that I had black underwear on, that I had put on clean underpants that morning, and that I would spit with embarrassment if I saw myself naked. Source: BIZLife