: Consider the cultural and historical context in which "Atlantida" was written. How might the author's time and place have influenced the story?
He reached the place marked To-Hold and found a city that fit three lifetimes and one breath. Buildings arched like ribs, streets folded like pages, and the people — or their echoes — moved through rooms that existed only at the edges of recollection. When he tried to record, his pen produced only water. Borislav Pekic Atlantida.pdf
A central theme in Pekić's work is the idea that history is cyclical. The novel posits that Western Civilization (Europe) is actually the inheritor of the Atlantean spirit—ambitious, technological, but ultimately rootless. The sinking of Atlantis is a metaphor for : Consider the cultural and historical context in