Two copies are available
Are you interested in another book? You can search the offer using our search engine or browse books by category.
The book Machiavelli and His Political Science by Vinko Lozovina, published in 1928 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the death of Niccolò Machiavelli, presents a comprehensive analysis of the life, works, and political thought of this Renaissan
The collection brings together works by Croatian writers, translators and scholars on Dante Alighieri and shows his strong influence on Croatian literature, culture and spiritual heritage over several centuries.
At a time when Croatian writers abroad were often presented only as "Yugoslav", this lexicon clearly and systematically presented Croatian literature as a separate national literature for the first time after World War II.
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.
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.
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.