Vitezović's aphorisms suggest a double reception to the modern reader in a certain, sensitive way.
They should be read in the time when they were written and now, so to speak, timeless, when the so-called reality surpassed and rhymed with many "harsh words" with its original satire.
In the collection "Circus Number XX", Franjo Domović brings satire, humorous and cheeky poems in which he comments on society, bohemian life and human weaknesses with irony and a comic-tragic tone.
Knjižara i papirnica Zaklinčić i Ujčić, 1924.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
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Aphorisms and jokes • Croatian literature • Humor and Satire • Literary periodical
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