Spanish stories / Guentos espanoles (A dual-language book)

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Filozofske priče

Philosophical Tales is part of Balzac's "Human Comedy", and includes four stories – The Shangri-La, The Elixir of Long Life, The Unknown Masterpiece and Melmoth the Penitent – that explore philosophical, moral and metaphysical themes through complex chara

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

Jadi mladoga Vertera

Goethe's masterpiece of an epistolary novel from 1774 (revised in 1787), pivotal to the Sturm und Drang movement, caused a cultural upheaval in Europe – a wave of suicides, "Wertherism" and the imitation of heroes in fashion and sentiment.

Proljeće u Badrovcu

The collection "Spring in Badrovac" (published in Belgrade in 1955 by Prosveta, reprinted in Zagreb by SKD Prosvjeta in 2019) brings together short stories written by Desnica in the 1950s, focused on a Dalmatian village in post-war chaos.