Dunja u kovčegu

Dunja u kovčegu

Milan Begović

Begović's first novel, "the best lyrical novel" (J. Bogner) of Croatian literature, is a romantic story set in a patriarchal, rural landscape. It is a story about the passionate love of two opposite characters: the refined bon vivant Dušan and the fragile

The quince in the coffin, despite the somewhat stereotypical characters and somewhat stretched, melodramatic plot, remains to this day a subtle literary insight into the nature of love. Set in a patriarchal, rural landscape such as Begović's birthplace, the romantic story of a passionate love affair between two antipodes: the chaste, young, fragile Rođena and the experienced seducer, fashionable bon vivant Dušan, is full of emotional charge, sentimental, poetic expressions, dramatic, on at the end of the tragic twists. A bit old-fashioned, sweet in places, Quince in a coffin on its best pages reveals the writer's talent for precise characterization of characters, for realistic evocation of the environment and time, for nuances with linguistic peculiarities that include dialectics, Turkishisms, Europeanisms...

Editor
Branka Primorac, Seid Serdarević
Illustrations
Stanko Abadžić
Graphics design
Vanja Cuculić
Dimensions
21 x 13 cm
Pages
187
Publisher
Večernji list, Zagreb, 2004.
 
Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language: Croatian.
ISBN
978-9-53716-103-3

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