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The collection of short stories On the same road (1963) contains eight stories, most of them previously published in Forum magazine, with some reworked or newly written: "The Tale of Two Stones", "Happiness", "On the same road", "Dead Sea", "Worlds", "His

Voltaireova smrt

The book is not a novel, but a collection that mixes short stories, drama, and essay fragments, with a focus on death, power, and existential dilemmas.

Pripovijetke

This edition brings four key stories by Vjenceslav Novak (1859–1905), one of the most important Croatian realists, known for his social sensitivity and depictions of urban poverty at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Priče o braku i seksu

The book contains about twenty stories connected into one whole by the main character (the writer Oskar). It is, therefore, a kind of novel that, through intimate confessions, actually talks about the loneliness of the modern intellectual.

Proljeće u Badrovcu

The collection "Spring in Badrovac" (published in Belgrade in 1955 by Prosveta, reprinted in Zagreb by SKD Prosvjeta in 2019) brings together short stories written by Desnica in the 1950s, focused on a Dalmatian village in post-war chaos.