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Instead of the brief entries you'll find in lexicons and encyclopedias, Reading in the Palm of Your Hand offers you an exciting journey through great literary eras, and your guides on that journey are renowned experts in Croatian literary scholarship.
The book systematically explores the fundamental spiritual, cultural, and aesthetic sources of poetry. Through consideration of motifs, tradition, language, religion, and worldview, Grgec shows how poetic expression and experience are shaped.
The title of the book In the Fire of the Worlds is a paraphrase of a sentence from Andrić's story "The Woman on the Stone" because, according to the author of this book, it best illustrates Andrić's political life: "To burn up without a trace, to lose one
Mark Thompson writes a biography of one of the most important European writers of the 20th century. Through a combination of research, literary analysis, and personal portraiture, he portrays Kiš as an anti-fascist, modernist, and witness to the traumas o
This is one of the first synthetic analyses of the so-called Croatian fantasy generation (or "Borgesians", "young prose" with elements of fantasy) that appeared in the late 1960s and during the 1970s.
A future civilization that would not refer to literature and the language of the press would be a different human species that does not touch our understanding of the beautiful and the true.