Lidija Dujić

Some Call Them Lady-Writers

Format: 13x20
ISBN: 978-953-8313-01-1
Pages: 160
Binding: meki
Published: 2019

This study in literary history brings to light various characteristics of the Croatian female literary scene in the late 19^th and early 20^th century. Focusing on three key figures – Dragojla Jarnević, Jagoda Truhelka and Ivana Brlić Mažuranić – the author makes visible a complex tissue of influences, shared existential preoccupations, positions on writing and recurrent literary motifs. The fundamental question leading her research – what was it...

Clara and Robert Schumann

The Marriage Diaries

Format: 13x20
ISBN: 978-953-8313-02-8
Pages: 180
Binding: meki
Published: 2019

This edition will thrill every classical music lover! The year is 1840, in the city of Leipzig; the young but already internationally famous pianist Clara Wieck and the still quite unknown composer Robert Schumann just succeeded in getting married, despite all obstacles. The day after getting married, upon Robert’s whish they start writing down all their needs and desires, the joys and sorrows of matrimonial life. They take turns in writing, each of them covering the events of one...

Giorgio Agamben

Self-Portrait in the Study

Format: 13x20
ISBN: 978-953-7760-94-6
Pages: 164
Binding: meki
Published: 2019

Self-Portrait in the study, the recently published autobiography of one of the leading contemporary continental philosophers Giorgio Agamben offers the reader a wide set of interesting motives. Throughout the book, the author recalls all the intellectual encounters which had a decisive influence on his thought, creating, in this way, a magnificent portrait of the late 20^th century philosophical and literary scene: following Agamben from encounter to encounter, the...

Sanja Lovrenčić

Zagreb Childhood in the Sixties

Format: 11x18
ISBN: 978-953-7760-73-1
Pages: 136
Binding: paperback
Published: 2017

Sanja Lovrenčić wrote the book of prose fragments entitled Zagreb Childhood in the Sixties while she was working on the translation of Walter Benjamin's autobiographical Berlin Childhood around 1900,and her writing is therefore marked by an interesting duality. Zagreb Childhood functions as an autobiographical discourse and deals with the elements typical for that genre: introspection, sketches of the chosen period, a fine nostalgia for childhood,...

Jessie Conrad

Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him

Format: 11x18
ISBN: 978-953-7760-76-2
Pages: 160
Binding: paperback
Published: 2017

In these biographic fragments  Jessie Conrad sketches the picture of her husband Joseph, one of the greatest writers of English twentieth century literature: nervous, a bit weird, attached to his family in  his own way, but first of all, obsessed with his work. At the same time, the reader catches a glimpse of Jessie herself, the almost ideal writer’s wife of old times: typing his texts, cooking, economizing, welcoming guests, raising the children, coping with reality in...

Walter Benjamin

Berlin Childhood around 1900

Format: 11x18
ISBN: 9789537760670
Pages: 104
Binding: paperback
Published: 2016

Over the last few decades Walter Benjamin has become one of the most prominent names in the humanities: considering definitions of modernity, film theory, philosophy of history, cultural studies or criticism of canonical literary texts, his work can hardly be avoided. This is brought about by Benjamin’s broad interests and lucidity, but also by his awareness of the fact that cultural theory or philosophy always implies an act of writing. His penchant towards the use of metaphor,...

Henri Barbusse

Letters to his Wife 1914-1917

Format: 13,5 x 20,5
ISBN: 9789537760519
Pages: 248
Binding: paperback
Published: 2014.

Franz Hammerbacher

Logbook

Format: 12x18,7
ISBN: 9789537760472
Pages: 164
Binding: paperback
Published: 2014.

Zvonimir Berković

On Music

Format: 13,5 x 20,5
ISBN: 978-953-7760-32-8
Pages: 148
Binding: paperback
Published: 2013

A collectionof music critiques and essays by Croatian film director and erudite Zvonimir Berković. Texts he wrote over several decades for newspapers and magazines are collected in this book and divided into four parts: Critique - Portraits - Meditations - Conversations. Collected and edited by Bosiljka Perić Kempf.

Zvonimir Berković wrote about music only occasionally, in the mid sixties and the first half of the seventies, for several newspapers and magazines. He left...

Sanja Lovrenčić

Searching for Ivana

Format: 13,5x20,5
ISBN: 978-953-7760-30-4
Pages: 320
Binding: paperback
Published: 2006, 2007, 2013

third edition

A biographical novel by Sanja Lovrenčić about the Croatian author Ivana Brlić Mažuranić. Written in the first-person singular, the story develops on two levels, in the past and in the present, unfolding around the changing and yet unchanging topics of family relations, artistic creation and female existence in the world of literature.

"K.Š.Gjalski" Award for the best...

Nicolas Bouvier

Scorpion-Fish

Format: 13,5x20,5
ISBN: 978-953-7760-28-1
Pages: 120
Binding: paperback
Published: 2012

A literery testimony of an outward and inward journey by the renowned Swiss traveler and writer. What could have eassily become a simple travelogue becomes a diary of a slow sinking into loneliness, fever, exotic beauties and deadly menaces of a "chimerical island" - Sri Lanka. Combining humour and poetry, N. Bouvier created penetrating, unforgettable literary images.

Translated by Sanja Lovrenčić

Lidija Dujić

Feminine Side of the Croatian Literature

Format: 13,5x20,5
ISBN: 978-953-7760-15-1
Pages: 160
Binding: paperback
Published: 2011.

Exploring the feminine side of Croatian literature Lidija Dujić offers a concise and interesting overview of selected segment of the Croatian literary...

Franz Liszt

Chopin

Format: 13,50x20,5
ISBN: 978-953-7760-12-0
Pages: 180
Binding: paperback
Published: 2011

A book on Frederic Chopin written by his colleague and friend Franz Liszt. Croatian translation of the first French edition. Preface by pianist Veljko Glodić, professor at the Music Academy in Zagreb.

Ivana Mažuranić

Good morning, world!

Format: 13,5x20,5
ISBN: 978-953-7760-01-4
Pages: 160
Binding: paperback
Published: 2010

Diaries by the famous Croatian writer Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, written in the 1880s when she was fifteen to eighteen years old. The book provides insight into teenage life in the 19th century in Zagreb, the charming young character of the writer, her thoughts on literature, life and death, as well as the seeds of conflicts awaiting a female writer – all of which makes it a highly interesting read.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Letters from Sweden, Norway and Denmark

Format: 13,5x20,5
ISBN: 978-953-7760-02-1
Pages: 160
Binding: paperback
Published: 2010

famous letters by Mary Wollstonecraft for the first time in Croatian translation

translated by Sanja Lovrenčić