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Henri Barbusse

Letters to his Wife

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

My dearr heart, my lovely little one - thus begin the gentle letters Henri Barbusse wrote to his wife a hundred years ago. What follows is by no means gentle - trenches, shells, mud and the dead, the war that is revealed in its bloody meaninglessness. In the year 1914. the writer of letters, Henri Barbusse, was 41, had a reputation as a writer and editor, was not in the best health and had firm pacifist beliefs. Despite all this he volunteered for the French Army and spent the...

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Franz Hammerbacher

Logbook

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

Logbook by Austrian writer Franz Hammerbacher was written during the voyage around the world on large container ships, the voyage which, accidentally, lasted eighty days. Discrete humor, actuality and elegant style brought the author a number of readers and critical acclaim.

Ship's log is a means of the preservation of evidence, but it remains unclear what it was to be proved by it. The meaning of the notes is created...

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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...

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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...

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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

Feminine Side of the Croatian Literature

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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...

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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.

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