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.
Vlado Bulatović's Step Back Viba is a collection of sharp, witty and thoughtful aphorisms about man, society and government. Through satire and irony, Viba exposes the hypocrisy of the system and human weaknesses, calling for reflection and moral distance
Nolit, 1982.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.86 €
Aphorisms and jokes • Humor and Satire • Short stories • Poetry
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.
8.32 €
Aphorisms and jokes • British literature • Humor and Satire • Short Stories • Zabavna biblioteka
This volume of the Entertainment Library, in addition to the title story The Canterville Ghost, contains a selection of Wilde's short stories, fairy tales, prose poems, aphorisms, and a review of the play Salome, providing a cross-section of his literary
Naklada kraljevske zemaljske tiskare, 1913.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
14.36 €
Aphorisms and jokes • Essays and diaries • Croatian literature • Humor and Satire • Short stories
People and Monkeys is a collection of satires, humoresques, fables, and aphorisms in which Fadil Hadžić, through humor and irony, exposes human vanity, hypocrisy, greed, and the abuse of social power.
Stvarnost, 1975.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.