Bolja polovica hrabrosti

Bolja polovica hrabrosti

Ivan Slamnig

The novel "The Better Half of Courage" (1972), by Croatian writer Ivan Slamnig, is considered the first true Croatian postmodernist novel.

The narrator Flaks meets with his old friends: Zito, Berti, Herzl and others. Reminiscing about their younger days, they decide to organize a trip to Brestovje, which Flaks will also use to collect old inscriptions from the 19th century, since he is writing a doctoral dissertation in philology. While visiting Zito, he meets her cousin Anita, with whom he has a brief flirtation, but also her aunt, who is writing a novel that she gives him to read (the story is set in southern Croatia, and follows the story of a girl named Ana who marries a young doctor, Vojko. After he dies shortly after the outbreak of war, she goes to his grave every day and notices a young man in the cemetery. Over time, she begins to wonder whether she is coming to the grave of her late husband or to see the mysterious young man again). After returning from Brestovje and having a polemical conversation with her aunt about the development of the story in her novel, Flaks decides to accept the job offered to her as an English teacher in Brestovje. She leaves that same evening.

Editor
Branka Primorac, Seid Serdarević
Illustrations
Stanko Abadžić
Graphics design
Vanja Cuculić
Dimensions
21 x 13 cm
Pages
116
Publisher
Večernji list, Zagreb, 2004.
 
Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language: Croatian.
ISBN
978-9-53716-110-1

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