Autobiography
In his famous autobiography, Branislav Nušić tells the happiest events of his youth - from school, barracks and prison. The writer's unique sense of humor turns his vicissitudes into an unforgettable experience for a lifetime.
As a creative achievement and as an ideological result, Branislav Nušić's Autobiography is truly a book in which the writer and the man Nušić lives with all his life and creative experience.
It is a parody of an academic type of autobiography, and as a genre and spirit it is a moralistic work whose morality is deeply ironic — primarily because of the great distance from the facts — and in many places it is highly sarcastic and self-ironic.
Branislav Nušić
Branislav Nušić (20 October 1864 – 19 January 1938) was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist and founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servant. He was often referred to as the Serbian and Balkan Gogol.
Nušić is more celebrated as a playwright than as a novelist. His incidental novels and journalistic feuilletons are not always moralistic or polished, but they are lively and amusing sketches of life. He is more prolific in historical drama and comedy.
