What Joyce's Ulysses is to Ireland, The Tutors is to Serbia: an avant-garde, almost untranslatable masterpiece full of wordplay and stylistic breaks, an experimental laboratory of language - yet highly comedic! At its core is a family chronicle set in Slavonia, told in various ways: through a brawl in a pub, in the form of a lexicon, or as a consultation in a bookstore. The narrator, as a passionate collector of curious phenomena, pays special attention to everyday things. Bora Cosic, who was under a publishing ban during the creation of The Tutors, spares no effort in ridiculing nationalist myths and ideologies of all kinds: from a rebellious Orthodox priest of the 19th century to enterprising women and an unnamed Au.