Kratki izlet je uz Novakov roman "Mirisi, zlato i tamjan" ponajbolje djelo hrvatske egzistencijalističke književnosti. Ovo djelo svjedoči o filozofskim, svjetonazorskim dvojbama hrvatskih intelektualaca 20. stoljeća.
The novel "Usta puna zemlje" (1970), the masterpiece of the Serbian writer Branimir Šćepanović, is a psychologically in-depth explorer of the limits of the human soul, solitude and existential freedom, reminiscent of Kafka and Camus.
At the end of the eighties, Damir Uzunović traveled to Paris and stayed there for less than a year. He was twenty years old at the time, and that exile episode would be formative for the literature he would later write.