Croatian literature

Zadarska revija 1969/5

Zadnja ruka

The Last Hand (2021) by Renato Baretić follows Zvonko Fild, an acclaimed writer in an existential and writing crisis. Written in a playful yet profound style, The Last Hand offers a humorous and layered story about creation and coming to terms with onesel

Zadnja stanica Vinkovci

The novel tells the story of two young people during the 1960s when he goes to serve in the military and she stays in Vinkovci.

Za dom - Ispovijest domoljubnog gurmana

Za Europu spremni

Ready for Europe by Arijana Čulina is a collection of satirical columns that humorously dissect Croatian society and its absurd political and cultural phenomena in the context of preparations for entry into the European Union.

Zagabrijel

The third part brings to an end this painful and dark story in which the unfortunate Nesi Hensu, better known as the Zagreb mummy, will find herself involved, neither guilty nor obliged.

Zagaljeni životi

Zagaljeni životi (1923) is a collection of short stories published by Matica hrvatska. Early stories marked by psychological portraits, erotic charge, social criticism and motifs of personal crisis, typical of Vilović's controversial opus.

Zagrepčanka

Branislav Glumac published a novel without periods or commas in 1974, as the relentless stream of thought of a young rebel. Published in socialist Yugoslavia, the work caused a scandal with its openness and became a classic about generational rebellion.

Zajednička kupka

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

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