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.
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 €
Novel • Humor and Satire • Italian literature
Luigi Pirandello's novel The Late Matthias Pascal (1904), a masterpiece of Italian literature, explores themes of identity, freedom, and social conventions through a tragic yet ironic story of a man trying to escape his life.
Matica hrvatska, 1927.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
3.98 €
Novel • Humor and Satire • Russian literature
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
Veselin Masleša, 1969.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.