Simply and without mystification, Pavličić reveals the secrets of his craft, which, revealed in this way, will perhaps help some to try their hand at writing.
At a time when Croatian writers abroad were often presented only as "Yugoslav", this lexicon clearly and systematically presented Croatian literature as a separate national literature for the first time after World War II.
Žmegač does not only talk about the visual arts, but about the "spirit" of the era that permeates literature: sensuality, the moment, subjectivity, decorativeness, eroticism, decadence, but also the crisis of identity in the fin-de-siècle atmosphere.
Zavod za znanost o književnosti Filozofskoga fakulteta, 1993.
The interpreter of the bird's flight or the performance of the novel is an experimental and genre-hybrid text that plays with the boundaries between novels, essays and diary entries.