Lovačke humoreske
A collection of humorous stories and anecdotes with a hunting theme, edited by Joža Horvat. The authors depict the relationship between man, hunting and nature through humorous anecdotes, combining satire, narrative charm and folk humour.
The collection Hunting Humoresques, edited by the famous Croatian writer and travel writer Joža Horvat, brings together ten humorous stories by domestic and international authors who have used hunting as a literary stage for exploring human weaknesses, vanity and the spirit of adventure.
The collection includes stories by the following authors: Alphonse Daudet – The Wonderful Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon, Milovan Glišić – A Rare Beast, Guy de Maupassant – The Snipe Tales, W. W. Jacobs – The Tiger, Anton Pavlović Chekhov – The Hunter, Charles Dudley Warner – How I Killed the Bear, Ivan Cepelić – And Hunting Is Sometimes a Disease of Right, Saki (H. H. Munro) – Mrs. Packletide's Tiger, Donatije Angjelinović – The Wolf, Eugen Bas – The Rabbit and Joža Horvat – Mr. Birmann Hunts the Deer.
Horvat's selection shows the diversity of approaches to the theme of hunting – from French satire and English humor to the realistic and folk tones of Serbian and Croatian short stories. Hunting appears as a metaphor for the human struggle with oneself, with nature and with social conventions. The main characters – proud and funny hunters, conceited heroes and infantrymen – are at the same time caricatures and mirrors of human nature.
Stylistically, the collection combines the elegant humor of Western European storytellers with the warmth and immediacy of domestic authors. At the center of each story is not the game itself, but the hunter's psychology – passion, excitement, greed and the comedy of failure. With this combination of laughter and insight into man, Hunting Humoresques remain a distinctive literary mosaic that easily crosses the boundaries of language, eras and traditions.
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