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.
The third volume of Collected Works contains Chekhov's most extensive novella, "A Drama in Hunting," as well as a number of longer stories from the period 1885-1886. There are humoresques such as Silo in a Bag, Eh, That Audience, and A Lot of Paper, as we
Zora, 1959.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
"Veseli šalabachter" is a witty, playful and very accessible collection that shows through humor how one can write about ordinary topics in a completely unexpected way.
Karitativni fond UPT, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
2.98 €
Humor and Satire • Journalism and media • Political journalism
Robi's Notebook by K. Viktor Ivančić is a satirical book written in the form of a diary of an eight-year-old boy, Robi, through whose seemingly naive perspective the social and political absurdities of Croatia in the early 1990s are revealed.
Feral Tribune, 1994.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
22.36 €
Humor and Satire • Historical novel • Novel • Czech literature
Jiří Šotola's quasi-historical novel Pile on a Spit depicts the absurdity of life through the story of the antihero – the puppeteer Matija Pile (Matěj Kuře), a puppeteer of history during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel criticizes totalitarianism through b
August Cesarec, 1983.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.