Ivan Aralica

Asmodejev šal

Ona je niža devica i bludnica, i verna žena i preljubnica, i anđeo i satana. Ovo je portret dame koja je, čineći zlo drugima, činila zlo sebi.

Asmodejev šal

A novel about a fatal woman named Niža from the Bosnian town of Kupres sometime around the end of the 17th century.

Duše robova

Duše robova

Set in 18th-century Dalmatia under Venetian rule, the novel deals with the fates of individuals in the context of feudal relations, social injustices, and the struggle for personal freedom.

Graditelj svratišta

The inn builder is a realistic historical novel, in the tradition of Andrić, but with elements of fantasy that connect Aralica with the oral Croatian literary word, but also with the fantastic literature of Gabriel García Marques, for example.

Graditelj svratišta

The novel combines historical realism with deep psychological insights, creating a layered narrative that goes beyond a mere depiction of the past.

Konjanik

Set in the Dalmatian hinterland during and after World War II, the novel explores complex social, psychological, and moral conflicts in a turbulent historical context.

Mentalni komunist

The actions and mantras of a president as a social, mental and personal template.

Okvir za mržnju

Thematically, the novel opens up issues of identity, national belonging, the right to one's own language and culture, but also the trials of moral choice in times of crisis.

Opsjene paklenih crteža

Ivan Aralica was born in 1930 in Promina in the Dalmatian hinterland. He worked as a teacher, manager and principal in schools in Dalmatinska Zagora, and from 1971 as a teacher in secondary schools in Zadar. He was politically engaged in the late 60s and