Italian literature

A gdje su bili očevi

Ako jedne zimske noći neki putnik

A novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino from 1979. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, is about a reader who tries to read the book If One Winter Night a Traveler. Each chapter is divided into two parts.

Anketa u Palermu

Antologija talijanske poezije XX. stoljeća

We present a pioneering selection of 20th-century Italian lyric poetry. The writer Joja Ricov selected and translated these representative works. This 1957 edition from the Lykos publishing house features verses by great masters.

Astrološki vodič za slomljena srca

An astrological guide for broken hearts tells a humorous and sharp irony story about the ups and downs of a modern woman full of life, contradictions, and hope.

Automat

Alberto Moravia

A collection of 41 short stories: the characters act like "automatons" – mechanical, listless, incapable of authentic reaction to life's problems. Modern man alienated, trapped in routine, sex, money and passivity, without will or feelings.

Bilo nas je mnogo

Božanstvena komedija

An epic poem written by Dante between 1304 and 1321, his most famous work. It is considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great literary work of the Middle Ages and the first great work that foreshadows the Renaissance.

Čočara

Alberto Moravia

Widow Cesira and her daughter Rosetta flee bombed Rome to their native Ciociaria, where they experience hunger, fear and misery. Liberation brings tragedy: Rosetta is raped by Moroccan soldiers, destroying their faith in God and people.

Čočara

Alberto Moravia

Widow Cesira and her daughter Rosetta flee bombed Rome to their native Ciociaria, where they experience hunger, fear and misery. Liberation brings tragedy: Rosetta is raped by Moroccan soldiers, destroying their faith in God and people.