"AUTOBIOGRAFSKI UGOVOR" RATNOG PISMA S POTPISOM ALENKE MIRKOVIĆ I GROZDANE CVITAN

Author(s): Miranda Levanat-Pericic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2016

This paper deals with the relationship of the wartime literature and the autobiographical discourse in the fictional and non-fictional texts written by two contemporary Croatian authoresses, Alenka Mirković and Grozdana Cvitan. From the receptional point of view, when the autobiographical discourse connects with the wartime themes, the importance of the social status of the author is substituted by the socially important topics, and the question of “who has the right to the story of his own life” (Velčić 1991) turns into a question of “what is a socially relevant theme?” Prevalence of topics that are important to collective memory in wartime literature is almost self-explanatory; this kind of topic is selected by Alenka Mirković in her Vukovar war chronicle 97.6 Mhz. Glasom protiv topova. Mala ratna kronika ((11996, 22011). While the novel written by Alenka Mirković meets the reader’s expectations by offering “autobiographical contract” (Ph. Lejeune) in which the name on the cover guarantees the identity of the author and the narrator, in short stories written by Grozdana Cvitan, Psi rata i druge bestije (2007), a war reality becomes awider framework of literary (self)reflection with an absence of documentarity. Although in her war stories there is no classic autobiographical contract (since there is no correspondence between the name of the author and narrator), the character of the narrator who listens leaving the others to become the main protagonists, guarantees an authentic cover for mediation of autobiographical testimony.

(mito)morfologija tijela

Author(s): Tin Lemac / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 93-94/2018

The review of: Tomislav Marijan Bilosnić: Sto pjesama o tijelu, 3000 godina Za dar, Zadar, 2017.

5 Books From Croatia

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Croatia

The project 5 Books from Croatia is part of a new push to promote Croatian literature in a more methodical and transparent way. ‘Small’ literatures have always been less visible in the English-speaking world, trailing behind translations from German, French and Spanish. To date, English editions of Croatian authors have been the result of individual endeavours and the passion of a small number of translators and publishers with a special interest in translated literature.

But while ‘big’ languages have a tradition of systematically promoting books, such as the leading publications 10 Books from Holland and New Books in German, Croatian literature is still terra incognita to most publishers, editors and the broad reading public. This is hardly surprising because well-translated, representative excerpts from the best Croatian titles are neither cheap nor easy to come by.

That is why we have decided to launch 5 Books from Croatia – a publication with a clear editorial conception that once per year will present four contemporary authors and one classic, a ‘forgotten gem’. The aim of the booklet is to highlight Croatian authors whose works radiate features of the country’s culture and literature but at the same time possess a timeless and universal human quality. Sizeable excerpts (around 5,000 words each) give a vivid impression of the rich and exciting climate in Croatian literature today.

Each of the four modern, prize-winning authors brings stylistic and genre-specific innovations to the treatment of classical themes such as wars and other historical turning points, or the relationship of the individual and society.

500 let u tudjini

Author(s): Anton Slavic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 93-94/2018

7 eseja

Author(s): Stanka Gjuric / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 99/2018

Stanka GJURIĆ - 7 eseja.

A možda je pas sanjao nas

Author(s): Boris Beck / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 61.7/2001

Short story by Boris Beck.

A walking woman

Author(s): Dubravka Ugrešic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 64.10/2001

Short stories by Dubravka Ugrešić: -Celebrity -I am just a kid! -Sreća -Hometown -Ah, ta retorika! -Pravo na nesreću -Prostor i vrijeme -Tamilci

A. B. Šimić kao likovni kritičar

Author(s): Šimun Musa / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1-2/2014

A.B. Šimić is not only a great poet, but also an eminent connoisseur of art expressionism, its theorist and critic with exceptional knowledge of German and French art scenes. Being familiar not only with literary conditions but also with art movements in Europe in general, especially with fine art theory and critics, Šimić used to critically write different articles (discussions, reviews and essays) in a lively and provocative but at the same time ingenious and modern way, proving himself the best connoisseur of European and Croatian literary and art expressionism of that time.

A. G. Matoš, Marcel Proust i Jovan Skerlić, ili Zagreb, Pariz, Beograd, Venecija

Author(s): Milana Vukovic Runjic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 04+06/2015

Nije mi bilo dovoljno posvetiti jednu knjigu A. G. Matošu, pa sam mu posvetila dvije. U prvoj, u kojoj ga s Proustom vodim u Veneciju, on je glavni junak, u drugoj, gdje se u imaginarnom hotelu sastaju glavni i sporedni krivci Velikog rata, tek je šutljivi promatrač s drugog svijeta.

Adultery

Author(s): Senko Karuza / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4/2018

It would’ve been easier, Your Honor, if I’d caught him in bed with another woman. I would’ve most likely turned and left, maybe I would’ve killed them both, maybe I would’ve killed myself. It would’ve been a happy ending.

Aforizmi

Author(s): Draženka Tole / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 93-94/2018

Znanje je put kojim se dolazi do... slijepe ulice. Onda se pitaš, ima li izlaza? Zato mnogi prvo nađu put pa znanje nađu usput.

Aforizmi

Author(s): Ivo Mijo Andric / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 93-94/2018

Aphorisms

Aforizmi – Ivo Mijo Andrić

Author(s): Ivo Mijo Andric / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 95-96/2018

Aphorisms by Ivo Mijo Andrić.

Alegorija je putovanje

Author(s): Ružica Pšihistal / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1/2015

review of: -------------------- Dolores GRMAČA, Nevolje s tijelom. Alegorija putovanja od Bunića do Barakovića, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2015., 479 str.

All That I Miss

Author(s): Senko Karuza / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4/2018

In that fit of privation, I went on everyone’s nerves. All it took was to remember something and, at that very instant, it would warp out of shape, fall apart, being to hurt. I saw clearly everything around me, all the beautiful world that surrounded me, but I somehow wasn’t able to reach it. Longing only.

An Important Notice

Author(s): Senko Karuza / Language(s): English / Issue: 3-4/2018

We leave the island at night. Waking up, washing, hurriedness and fear from running late. Checking our suitcase and pockets, a feeling we’ve forgotten something, which we cannot shake. Quickly running across sleeping streets, waiting for the bus that takes us to the boat and then waiting in line to buy a ticket. And dawn out in the open sea. A whole ceremony so much like the great endeavors.

Andrićeva priča

Author(s): Dejan Ðurickovic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 19/2003

Andrić ima veliko povjerenje u riječ, u njenu moć, njenu funkciju u životu. Riječ je za njega najveća tekovina čovječanstva, prenosnik svih vrijednosti i njihovo sito, i ništa se s njome ne može mjeriti. Sve ljudsko je u riječi, u govoru, u priči. Izvan nje nema ništa, postoji samo gluvilo, "pustinja ćutanja". Suzbijati riječ, zato, znači smanjivati svijet, još više - rušiti mu temelje.

ANTIFAŠIZAM KAO MESTO SEĆANJA: ČITANJE IZ PERSPEKTIVE 21. VEKA

Author(s): Angela Richter / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2017

One of the motives to write this article was the statement that “there is no common remembrance culture“ (Kolditz). On the one hand, this necessitates a plurality of memories, but on the other, it bears a risk of revisionism and relativisation of the antifascist struggle and its societal and cultural legacies. That is why I decided to look back at the recent Yugoslav literary past and evoke protagonists, topics and auctorial positions which made antifascism as the place of memory an integral part of the cultural discourse. It should be stressed that the authors whose works I introduced in this article also critically looked at the mythologems of the SFRY. Hence, this kind of analysis shows that the narratives of remembrance, despite the efforts of the ruling ideology to make them homogenous and indisputable, can be subverted and questioned, especially within and by literature which itself deals with narration and narrativization. Special focus on the play Hrvatski Faust (Croatian Faust, 1981) by Slobodan Šnajder is expressive: by establishing a parallelism among the action and the protagonists in the time of the NDH and the following communist period, the author suggests the congruency between the repressive policies of the Ustasha but also of the Yugoslav, antifascist establishment. Being a valuable literary document of the resistance to repression in any system, this play also questions the exploitation of the antifascist narrative as the mythologeme which undermines the critique of the authoritarian politics effectuated by the declared antifascist state. Conclusions of this article centre on the need to critically revaluate the past, but also to persist in defending values represented by antifascism as the place of memory and the foundation of the present and future society of humanity and justice.

Antropološka vizura povijesti. Držićev Dubrovnik

Author(s): Valentina Gulin Zrnic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 19/1996

The objective of this paper is to reconstruct some cultural aspects of the 16th century Dubrovnik by analyzing plays by Marin Držić (1508-1567). The framework of the paper consists of his literary opus in terms of cultural and literary anthropology as well as historical context (Dubrovnik, Renaissance, social structure). Since literary work is here defined as possible but non-traditional historical and anthropological source specific methodological problems have emerged (translating objective reality into literature). The author's interpretation is based on: defining popular culture through the structure and meaning of Carnival, popular culture namely could be seen as expressing non-official culture in oposition to official one (in the light of Mihail Bahtin's interpretation of Rabelais); reconstructing the existence of different conceptions of world and life; defining relations between social structure and cultural patterns, focusing on cultural communication. Držić's plays gives us new insights into the history of Dubrovnik. Nontraditional and interdisciplinary approach to history and anthropology could create a new way of dealing with history and understanding past and culture.

Antun Gustav Matoš 1873-1914. Kronologija kroza životopis & opus mu (povod: stotinuitrideseta obljetnica rođenja)

Author(s): Kruno Pranjic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2005

“Starac” Matoš imao je u vrijeme respektivnog autografa (1910) svega 37 godina!? Tovarnik je lokalitet, Srijem je i danas regija, ali geografsko-historijska: naziv joj potječe od latinskoga toponima Sirmium, sjedišta rimske Panonia Inferior, u III. stoljeću za cara Dioklecijana, regije smještene u trokutu između rijekâ Save i Dunava (aktualni naziv regije etimološki je transparentna adaptacija u hrvatskome – Srijem, u srpskome – Srem).