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Raskomadana vremena (2022) is the latest book by Rade Kovačević (1939–2024), a writer from Osijek, critic, essayist and long-time professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek, published under the pseudonym Edgar F. Smith.
The book systematically explores the fundamental spiritual, cultural, and aesthetic sources of poetry. Through consideration of motifs, tradition, language, religion, and worldview, Grgec shows how poetic expression and experience are shaped.
The book consists of a foreword by Prof. Dr. Hrvoje Jurić, 9 essays, 10 travelogues, 9 essays, and 3 completed correspondences with poet Vesna Parun, editor Jože Pogačnik, and poet Boris A. Novak.
Essays I. (1944) collects the author's significant studies on European classics: Tolstoy, Flaubert, Ibsen, Strindberg, Zola, Dostoevsky, and the essay "On Two Moralities." Profound modern critical-psychological essayism.
In 2013, 17 printed notebooks full of newspaper clippings and letters were found in a wicker laundry basket in the apartment of Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), one of the world's most famous children's writers and author of Pippi Longstocking.
The book contains the author's important essays on Ivan Mažuranić (Chancellor and Ban), Vladimir Mažuranić, and the centenary of the Croatian National Revival. A significant national-critical and historical-essay publication.