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.
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers back in 1954.
Penguin Books Ltd, 1969.
English. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
5.45 €
Humor and Satire • Slavonia, Baranja & Srijem • Croatian literature
In his book Osijekians, where are you, if you were... (1994), Alojzije Šmit presents a humorous and nostalgic social chronicle through the character of the pensioner Lojzek.
Otvoreno sveučilište Osijek, 1994.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
2.46 - 3.98 €
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