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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 first third of the book provides reviews of Russian literature (Chekhov, Ljeskov, Pushkin...). The second chapter deals with world literature (Balzac, Stendhal, Roland...), and the third chapter contains general articles.
Žmegač does not only talk about the visual arts, but about the "spirit" of the era that permeates literature: sensuality, the moment, subjectivity, decorativeness, eroticism, decadence, but also the crisis of identity in the fin-de-siècle atmosphere.
The work is theoretically based, but also focused on application in literary analysis, which is why it plays an important role in Croatian literary theory and academic teaching.
What you have before you is not an ordinary collection – it is a vibrant, multidisciplinary map of a specific intellectual and artistic world: 20th-century Zagreb culture, seen through the prism of "Luddism" as a key, programmatic category.
Written on the basis of the most contemporary achievements of modern literary theory and criticism, this book is not only a living theory of literature, but also a critical anthology of literary theories.