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Flush: a Biography
× 113,00 €7,80 €
Flush: a Biography Ukupno : 7,80 €
12,00 € 7,20 €
Letters to his Wife 1914-1917
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 two first years of war on the front lines – and wrote his novel Under Fire, literary testimony of the World War I, which earned him the Goncourt prize and thousands of readers. Documentary material on which is based his novel is found in the letters he wrote almost daily to his wife Hélyonne. In their immediacy and authenticity, those letters can convey to the reader of today the drama of the beginning of the “short twentieth century” better than any fiction.
Format: 13,5 x 20,5
ISBN: 978-953-7760-51-9
Pages: 248
Binding: paperback
Published: 2014.
Slični naslovi
#openwindow
15,00 €This collection of short texts enitled “#openwindow” is an outstanding example of how high-quality and original literature can be created on social media. For a year, author Aida Bagić wrote morning notes while looking out the window in her bedroom and published them on social media, with accompanying photographs. This project was called #openwindow, and resulted in a variety of texts – prose and poetry fragments, comments on daily events, notes on dreams and memories, wordplay and sketches of fairy tales. Often meditative, sometimes factual or playful, they reveal that the author is a skilled writer with an experience in writing poetry. Collected in this book, these notes show how an everyday object can stimulate our imagination, reflection, and introspection. Created in front of a window that opens onto external landscapes, they outline the author’s world of thought and emotion as a unique and interesting inner landscape. These texts are also an invitation to readers to think about their own everyday life, about ways in which they could rethink it so that it is not only more bearable, but also a source of genuine curiosity, sometimes even joy.
Searching for Ivana
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 Croatian novel in 2007.
The Female World of the British Raj
Biljana Romić, born in 1960, is a Croatian indologist and cultural editor. She gained her Master of Arts title in 1997 in Zagreb, with a study of Bharati Mukherjee and postcolonial migrant faiths. She has ever since actively been researching and writing about postcolonialism and the notion of the Other. Her extensive study The women’s world of British India was written after she spent several years studying diaries and letters written by “memsahibs”. Her work is not simply a historical overview of their lives and roles during colonialism, it puts colonial history, literature and the notion of the “Other” in a contemporary critical context; Romić analyses over one hundred and fifty sources, including Indrani Sen, Amandeep Kaur, Kumari Jayawardena and Shashi Tharoor. When reading about the British colonial venture in India, we mostly encounter works that have been written from the male perspective of conquests and regimen – but colonial women have, almost from the very beginning, been a part of this venture. Biljana Romić’s book brings us the voices of these women and their lives. They journeyed into the unknown, often not prepared for the adversities of a different climate and the social roles they were going to find themselves in. They went into the unknown as wives, governesses, teachers, as young women in search of a husband; sometimes as entrepreneurs, missionaries, adventurers. Many stayed within the expected roles given by the British colonial community, but some of them showed that it is possible to overcome the limitations of their era, class and gender when it comes to their relation to India and Indians. Biljana Romić talks about the so-called “little history”, the one that appears on the margins of big historical events – and without which it is impossible to gain a complete picture of a time that has passed.
