The Role of My Family in the World Revolution, now a classic of European literature, was a cult book in Yugoslavia. From the perspective of a child—innocent to the point of idiocy—it presents with unparalleled brevity how war, fascism, and communism haunt the microcosm of a rundown family in Belgrade during the 1940s. Here, Lenin's writing "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" is considered a tango textbook, discussions revolve around dwarfs in jars, and people take cover when partisans declare yesterday's friend to be today's enemy. The eerie laconicism of the narrator, the insane wit, and the melancholic humor of the book make it a masterpiece of subversion.