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Today, it is difficult to even imagine the former popularity of epistolary novels. It is often called a "novel in letters", although it is not necessarily about letters - the term can also mean a text created from, for example, diary entries, documents or newspaper clippings... The golden age of epistolary novels is usually associated with the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, although it is not the exclusivity of only one epoch, the form simply changed with the spirit of the times. From "The Woe of Young Werther", through "Wretched People" and "Frankenstein", until King's "Carry" or "Black Boxes" Amos Oz...

However, I believe that the former glory is nothing when these days in Montenegro an "epistolary novel" is being followed in our everyday life. An insight into the harsh Montenegrin realism in action.

Readers at all times have loved what the epistolary novel as a form brings - an insight into the most personal thoughts, but also the subtle development of relationships between characters.

It is precisely here that the secret of the popularity of the current Montenegrin novel should be sought in the messages of "The woes of a young secret agent".

What does insight into the world of a young Montenegrin police officer bring?

Let's say, an extremely unusual hierarchy - leading police officers and criminals work equally in creating the reality of crime here. The police officers punish the members of the competing clan, and the clan leaders are presented as some kind of mythical heroes, the new "hajduk".

And what are all those bandits doing, "honorable to the point of pain"?

Unfortunately, when you read all those terse and barely written messages, the young policeman does not give the impression of a very sharp man. It's clear that he believes that loyalty is a virtue above all others, which is why he swears so much.

His manipulations are quite transparent, funny and for a more benign world than the one in which he operates. I believe that when he receives such messages, he must have a good laugh Saric and other serious players.

But we should see what this interesting psycho portrait of a local policeman brings us. All of them were "made" in this way - loyalty and unscrupulousness above all, and then some privileges, deserved by such a hard life, certainly, believe such people.

How many more like this (made in this mold) are in those labyrinths of "security apparatus", and perhaps they have not yet qualified for encrypted communications and serious business. A secret agent, of course.

In fact, an unpleasant amount of banality screams from every message, from every written word.

As it usually happens, however, hindsight is as valuable to dictators as it is to others. Đukanović will make the biggest trouble - "the most loyal". His political legacy will hardly survive such a disastrous choice (loyal instead of capable) of a politician. And it always is.

Speaking of the psycho portrait that is revealed from the words (published SKY messages), we got an interesting psycho portrait thanks to one picture. With some ceremony that certainly did not deserve the kind of publicity it brought her Kovacevic.

Young Kovačević's mediocrity as a clear political position does not leave him much room - the only honorable thing would be for him to resign, and spare himself the trouble of holding power in a country that, one way or another, but certain - disgusts him.

If all that is so unbearable (I remember one of them said that, while the national anthem was playing, he was singing God of justice in his heart), why did he accept the position of mayor of Nikšić? Basically, it is sleazy to work against yourself and your beliefs in that way.

Hate deforms, it is clear, but it also makes a person a fool.

One essentially funny, extremely childish, but certainly streetwise detail, first of all, reminds us of the enormous limits of a political consciousness. And that, interestingly, precisely at a time when many want to believe that the evolution of that consciousness is possible, and that it would be good for Montenegro.

Kovačević's gesture is, unfortunately (painfully clear), showed how naive it is to believe that.