A 13-volume set of Marcel Proust’s collected works was published in Yugoslavia in 1967. During the Bosnian civil war, these Proust sets fetched up to the equivalent of a full year’s salary in the Belgrade black markets. The set exhibited in Irena Haiduk’s “Seductive Exacting Realism” was seized by local police from Belgrade Kalenć Market in 1995. It was acquired at a public auction in 2014. It is missing volume number 12.

Moving through a wide range of formats, the book encompasses manifestos, music scores, forecasts, conversions, translations, architectural programs, and other difficult-to-categorize works. With sharp teeth and a killer instinct, Haiduk leads the way to a sunny spot where every soul suffers infinite injustice.