Zajednička kupka

Zajednička kupka

Ranko Marinković

The communal bath is a kind of recapitulation - in it, Marinković's obsessive motives (humiliation, fraud and death) are discussed in the most direct and immediate way. In one of its layers, the novel is also a metaphor for literature, an allegory about t

When Ranko Marinković published his second novel in 1980 under the title Communal Bath, the book did not arouse enthusiasm among critics at the time. Her main handicap consisted in the fact that everyone compared her to Cyclops: although fifteen years had passed since the publication of that novel, it was still fresh in the memory, because in the meantime it had turned into a classic work. So it happened that at that time, and in fact even afterwards, even those features of Marinković's novel, which make it undoubtedly original and which - already in themselves - should have been enough to encourage efforts to decipher the meaning of that narrative structure more carefully, remained unnoticed.

"In the Common Bath, Ranko Marinković also spoke about literary skill, so that novel should be viewed in that light as well, as a kind of ironic commentary on his own literary oeuvre. It is an ambitious work that in many aspects synthesizes what Marinković had done in prose up to that point." - Pavao Pavličić

Editor
Zlatko Crnković
Illustrations
Dražen Pomykalo
Graphics design
Alfred Pal
Dimensions
19.5 x 12 cm
Pages
192
Publisher
Znanje, Zagreb, 1980.
 
Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language: Croatian.

One copy is available

Condition:Unused
 

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