Berta Bojetu-Boeta, messages still not heard

SynopsisBeyond power seeking individuals, beyond meanness, cruelty, intolerance, smothering, violence, irreverence for material and spiritual matters, beyond killing, torturing, harming in a manner we can hardly imagine, all human interactions stem from the relationships between men and women, of how men have treated women, throughout history. This is exhaustively described by one of the major contemporary Slovenian writers, Berta Bojetu-Boeta (1946–1997). Her two novels (1990; 1995), set in the past, may be read as announcements of some major traumatic events in the Balkans, in the last years of the past millennium. Her imaginary dystopias tackle some of the major patterns of how people have lived together along the Adriatic coast, or generally in the area between East and West. With fear at the core of many situations, the beauty of this prose comes from the inner strength of female characters, preparing fertile ground for the emergence of improved human relationships.