Objektivni korelativi: tuga - mržnja - radost
A posthumous collection published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of Dalibor Cvitan (1934–1993), a prose writer, poet, essayist and critic. It contains a selection of around twenty essays, short stories and feuilletons - a cross-secti
The title takes up T.S. Eliot's concept of "objective correlative" - an external object or situation that objectifies an internal emotional state. Cvitan uses it for three basic affects: sadness (melancholy, failure), hatred (criticism of society, nihilism) and joy (rare moments of hope or irony).
The novels are dominated by antisocial urban losers, marginals and "little people" in the spirit of existential failure - urban nihilism, loneliness, the meaninglessness of everyday life. The essays and feuilletons deal with everyday phenomena: the collapse of morality, the lies of society, political and cultural hypocrisy, advocating the right to individuality and critical thinking in socialism and transition.
The style is sharp, cynical, intellectually precise, with a touch of black humor and pessimism - Cvitan's worldview: man is doomed to solitude and the fight against illusions. The book is an important reminder of his oeuvre – critical, unpathetic, relevant to understanding Croatian literature of the second half of the 20th century.
One copy is available
