Dogs without masters

The weekly newspaper Observator Cultural prints an excerpt of an essay by Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic which is written from the perspective of a stray dog in Bucharest: "The ownerless dogs don't entirely suit the new capitalist Bucharest. Every mayor promises to solve the problem, but not a single one has done a thing. ... Sure, you can blame cowboy capitalism, bureaucracy, mistaken policies and disappointment at the EU. I think the dogs here are viewed the way your species [humans] is, as victims both of communism and of the democratic process. ... I've observed that it's easy to feel lost and inept in this individualist society: it isn't easy to take responsibility for your own life nowadays, not to mention those of the unfortunate dogs in the area. ... You could say this society has a laissez-faire attitude, and hasn't yet fully woken up from the communist lethargy."

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