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, as it were, out of time, when so-called reality, with its original satiricalness, has surpassed and rhymed with many "sharp words".
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.
13.56 €
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.