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Životi trubadura

12,00  7,20 

Knjiga ‘Životi trubadura’ Sanje Lovrenčić donosi biografske tekstove anonimnih autora iz 13. i 14. stoljeća koji su se bavili životima trubadura.

Srednjovjekovni biografski tekstovi o trubadurima vrlo su staro svjedočanstvo o zanimanju što su ga kod suvremenika pobuđivali životi umjetnika. U vrijeme kad su se pisali samo životopisi svetaca i značajnih vladara, pjesnici su jedina skupina ljudi kojoj se također posvećuje takav napor. Njihove biografije pisane su na jeziku čije je jedno od imena u srednjem vijeku bilo ‘lenga d’oc’ te se danas najčešće naziva okcitanskim, a smatra se prvim književnim europskim jezikom nakon antike.

Grasmerski dnevnik

13,00  7,80 

Otada je putovala i selila se sa mnom, u užurbanosti života značila usporavanje. Možda je dio čarolije bio i u ljepoti tog engleskog izdanja, opremljenog reprodukcijama umjetničkih djela iz vremena kad je pisala Dorothy Wordsworth, slikama koje pozivaju na zaustavljanje, kao što i dnevnički tekst, tanak trag živoga vremena tih davno umrlih ljudi, poziva na maštanje. Međutim, ne radi se o bilo kojem vremenu ni o bilo kojim ljudima. Dorothy Wordsworth živjela je među pjesnicima, njezini zapisi bacaju intimno svjetlo na svijet prve generacije engleskih romantičara, a njezini dnevnički motivi skriveno, ali trajno odjekuju u pjesmama njezinoga brata Williama Wordswortha i njegovog prijatelja Samuela Taylora Coleridgea. No ni to nije najdublji razlog moje trajne očaranosti ovim tekstom. Bilješke Dorothy Wordsworth iz godina “priprostog života i sjajnih misli”, njezino postavljanje na istu razinu pečenja kruha i bavljenja pjesništvom, njezin meditativan pristup prirodi, sve to ispod površinske suzdržanosti daje naslutiti umjetničku osjetljivost jedne neobične žene za koju je življenje i pisanje bilo tijesno povezano, premda se nikad nije htjela “izdavati za pisca “.

Out of the Atelier

10,00  6,00 

New poetry collection by Sanja Lovrenčić.

 

still life: frozen begonias

brush captures the moment:
the stem still looks solid
ice in its heart makes it
apparently alive
while the sun is shining fervently
upon deep-frozen world

you see in the background:
someone left open
the veranda door
in the coldest night

malicious master painter in the picture
on a piece of auxiliary something
delivery box perhaps in which arrived
everything that’s crammed in the corner
is painting the rotting the gray the weary
plants as they will be
in only a few hours –

but not yet

In the Direction of the Beginning (Early Short Stories)

10,00  6,00 

A collection of twenty short stories written simultaneously with the first poems that made the fame of Dylan Thomas. Creating his dense web of images, the young author is dealing (not without irony) with the big issues, life and death, love and madness, interweaving Welsh countryside and motives of local legends in impressive texts that defy all categorization.

4 Tales from the Country of Rabbits

10,00  6,00 

In the county of rabbits the young reader will get to know the caring rabbit mom, dad who tells bedtime stories, their sons Eusebius the diary writer, Hugo the trumpet player, and other members of the large family, whose merry adventures are told in pictures interwoven with words. Texts by Pika Vončinahave an original ludic quality and often contain unobtrusive reflection about the natural world and human relations.

Logbook

10,00  6,00 
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 only retroactively. It is vital that the log is kept chronologically and politely, regardless of the current mood and inspiration. Extraordinary events are recorded as rarely as they occur. Ship’s diary in the first place is the record of everyday life .  Using the logbook method, Franz Hammerbacher reports on events such as the spectacular passage through the Panama Canal or the dangerous waterways near the Somali coast, as well as on the small events in the lives of crews and passengers, drawing the reader into his documentary story that slides almost imperceptibly from the recorded moments on the sea into the meditation about the voyage that is life.

 

Bodies Are Easy Targets

10,00  6,00 

The new collection of poems by Aida Bagić was created during a period of several years, following her acclaimed book If my name is Sylvia (2007). Dealing with memories, everyday life, “sounds of her own interior”, the author is primarily concerned with poetic language, referring back to Croatian poets experimenters like Ivan Slamnig and Anka Žagar. Out of the memories, fragments of fairy tales, transformed shards of everyday life, Aida Bagić creates a coherent poetic world, affirming it again and again as the only fragile possibility of belonging.

Fairy Tale of Shallow Waters

10,00  6,00 

Picture book based on seashore debris used to evoke a setting and to provoke a story: shells and rubble become seashore, stones and wire become fish, and a little pebble-island becomes a witness of a fair tale that suddenly happens in the shallow water. The writer and the illustrator create an interplay between elements (water, stone, wind), transforming the ordinary set of things into a fantastic movement of awakened life. Fairy Tale of Shallow Waters served as a basis for a number of art workshops for preschool children.

Snakes of Nikonimor, Part III – Gates of Gold

11,00  6,60 

The third part offantasy trilogy by Sanja Lovrenčić, written in the genre of alternate history, inspired by the Illyrian proper names and names of places.

In the final part of the saga about the flute player Tisya and palace-builder Arne all the individual stories started in the first two books come to an end. The ancient world is going through a sort of cataclysm, and the main characters finally get together after a long separation. They start a final quest for the “gates of gold”, because only those who get through it would be no longer in the power of time…

Scorpion-Fish

10,00  6,00 

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.

Emilija’s Very Extraordinary Adventure

10,00  6,00 

Emilija the sheep, Pika Vončina’s calm and pleasantly modest children’s book character, is well-loved in Croatia. The present volume, whose title promises an “Adventure”, is not concerned with a dangerous quest, though Emilija does fly with the wind and dive with the fish. Rather, the little sheep becomes acquainted with the elements, and learns about the special nature of the air, earth, water, and even the stars. This happy dream journey is narrated in a laconic style. Vončina’s characteristic whimsical typography and word play further add to this gentle little picture book, whose plot end where it began: as a good-night-story on the pillow (Age: 4+)