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".
"A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest treasure for a worldly man, if he knows how to insert the former in a suitable place in a conversation and if the latter come to his mind at the right time"
Globus, 1984.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
15.2612.21 €
Anthropology • Aphorisms and jokes • Moral and didactic literature • Culturology
The book contains over 12,500 proverbs painstakingly collected by Tomislav Radić, a unique collection of wisdom from peoples and nationalities from all over the world. Richly illustrated, this "golden book" remains an invaluable heritage of global folklor