Jednom
12,00 €U ovoj neobičnoj slikovnici dvojice renomiranih autora Igor Rajki kao da nikako ne može započeti priču: ideje se nadovezuju jedna na drugu velikom brzinom, a svaki put kad se čini da je pripovjedač našao dobar pravac, pojavljuje se razlog da od ideje odustane. Svaki početak, međutim, svaka neispričana priča, već u sebi sadrži iznimno sažeto i živo ocrtane motive i događaje te dobiva snagu, vrlo često humoristične, anegdote. Te anegdote, utemeljene u frazi „Jednom je jedan…“ počinju se naganjati kroz slikovnicu stvarajući vrtlog motiva koji u sebe upija neotkrivene planete kao i otpale gumbe. Krešimir Zimonić sjajno je likovno odgovorio na takav pripovjedački stil: on koristi crtež, fotografiju i kolaž, čitavo mnoštvo likovnih stilova i tehnika, a od stranica stvara uvijek nove vrste cjeline. Likovni motivi tako prate živu dinamiku pripovjednog stila, a slikovnica djeluje kao jedinstvena cjelina koja će snažno zaokupiti pažnju najmlađih čitatelja.
Bračni dnevnik
14,00 €Izdanje namijenjeno svim ljubiteljima klasične glazbe. Godina 1840., grad Leipzig: mlada, ali svjetski poznata pijanistica Clara Wieck i još uglavnom nepoznati skladatelj Robert Schuman uspjeli su se vjenčati, unatoč svim zaprekama. Dan nakon vjenčanja, na Robertov poticaj, počinju bilježiti želje i nade, brige i radosti bračnoga života. Pišu naizmjence, svatko po tjedan dana, isprva s mnogo zanosa. Stranicama njihovog dnevnika – koji prvi put objavljujemo u hrvatskom prijevodu – promiču brojni likovi povezani s glazbenim životom onodobne Europe; govori se o koncertima i kućnom muziciranju, o skladanju i „studiranju“ tuđih skladbi, o svakodnevici prožetoj glazbom – i govori se o ljubavi. No u tim prvim godinama braka, koje su za Roberta bile razdoblje velike kreativnosti, a za Claru svojevrsnog zastoja, nije ipak sve onako svijetlo i lako kako bi trebalo biti…
Book #2917
The Marriage Diaries
14,00 €The edition that 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 various obstacles. The day after the wedding, upon Robert’s whish, they start writing down all their needs and desires, joys and sorrows of matrimonial life. They take turns in writing, each of them covering the events of one week, at first with a lot of passion. Many celebrated musicians of the period pass through the pages of their double diary; Robert and Clara speak about art, home concerts, days and weeks filled with music, but they also speak about love. In these first years of their marriage, years that have been among the most productive for Robert and a sort of setback for Clara, life is good, but it isn’t without its’ own shadows…
Of Bears and their Humans
15,00 €The heroes of this illustrated book are teddy bears who turn out to be incredibly lively pets, always looking for some kind of mischief. They steal pancakes, sing and swim; they meet other animals in the city park; in the summer they go to the seaside and they never-ever sleep their winter’s sleep. The teddy bears’ little adventures are presented as short messages that their owner sends to her friend, and these messages very often acquire a visual power and a narrative dynamic which resemble silent cinema sketches. Once the whole picture is put together, however, one realizes that, from message to message, the author has taught him some important things on friendship and freedom… The book was illustrated and graphically designed by the young artist Hana Vrca who gave it a specific visual coherence and quality.
Book #3368
O medvjedima i njihovim ljudovima
15,00 €Plišani su medvjedi u ovoj knjizi za mlade zapanjujuće živi kućni ljubimci, uvijek skloni “huncutarijama”. Oni kradu palačinke, pjevaju i plivaju, druže se sa životinjama koje susreću u gradskom parku, ljeti odlaze na more i nikad ne spavaju zimski san… Poruke o medvjedima koje junakinja ove knjige šalje neimenovanom prijatelju donose čitavu lepezu zabavnih dogodovština, ponekad vizualno izražajnih kao da se radi o epizodama iz crtanog filma. Na taj vrtlog malih avantura likovno je odgovorila umjetnica Hana Vrca, pletući oko medvjeda i njihovih „ljudova“ splet motiva koji ovu knjigu pretvara u malen, zaokružen svijet. Taj je svijet poseban i na jezičnoj razini: Marina Koludrović, iznimno stilski osviještena autorica, unosi u svoj vokabular žargonizme, arhaizme, regionalizme, asonance i aliteracije, inverzije i elipse, inventivno i sa smislom za humor. Medvjeđe avanture tako postaju i jezične avanture koje će mladog čitatelja naučiti ponešto o registrima jezičnog izraza.
Book #3116
May Bug and Paper Boat
14,00 €As a paper boat is floating carelessly on a city fountain, it is suddenly stirred by something that fell into it. The intruder turns out to be a cockchafer that couldn’t learn to fly. The two gentle creatures – the little boat that could so easily sink and the little bug that doesn’t fly – very quickly become inseparable friends. While floating on the fountain, they protect each other from little dangers and explore their surroundings that seem marvelous to them: balloons fly over their heads, people come to the fountain to toss coins into it and dream of luck, fireflies come to light up the night. And when real peril arises, it turns out that the little boat and the cockchafer have, along their way, already made friends who are ardent to save them. Sanja Lovrenčić thus creates a lyrical story about fragileness and the magic that resides in the world’s details which is accompanied by aquarelle illustrations of an almost minimalist quality by Mingsheng Pi.
Book #3334
Hrušt i brodić
14,00 €Svijet je pun opasnosti, naročito za one koji su krhki: za brodić od papira što ga prva kiša može otopiti, za malenog hrušta koji ne može letjeti. Među njima će se, međutim, možda baš zbog zajedničke slabosti, razviti nerazdruživo prijateljstvo. Zajedno ploveći gradskom fontanom, pokušat će razumjeti čuda opasnog i divnog okolnog svijeta: krijesnice i balone, ptičji pjev i ljude koji se, bacajući novčiće u vodu, još uvijek nadaju sreći. A na kraju će se pokazati da i svijet zna biti nježan prema nježnima…
Book #2906
The End of a Long Journey
13,00 €In this short novel Michael Ende takes us for a journey across Europe, Asia, Africa, all the way to Hindukush. The story’s protagonist, Cyril Abercomby is an English aristocrat and the son of a 19th century diplomat. In his childhood he follows his father on diplomatic missions and when the father dies, Cyril inherits the family fortune and continues wandering across the globe in a pointless spleen. Although he had been enjoying the luxury of grand hotels and high society ever since his earliest childhood, Cyril is haunted for life by a feeling of non-belonging, of homelessness. But then one day, he finds his home – on a painting. Suddenly his voyages become purposeful: he must find the place depicted on the canvas, no matter the costs. This quest leads him to different atrocities and a final, suicidal, mission: neither dead, nor alive, Cyril finds his home in the space of his own imagination grafted upon a real geographical place. Michael Ende thus develops a dark, but lyrical story on alienation, the power of imagination and the workings of art. His text has been illustrated by the painter Dominik Vuković who visually represented the dark contours of this story that revolves around a painting.
Book #3363
Kuku i Riku
15,00 €U malenom selu, na malenom imanju, živjela jednom dvojica čupavaca Tonči i Đuro, okruženi domaćim životinjama. Njihov se život odvijao između rada u polju i sviranja raznih instrumenata. Glavni junaci priče, međutim, nisu čupavci nego njihova dva pijetla, blizanci Kuku i Riku, koji nakon idiličnog djetinjstva dospijevaju u ruke beskrupuloznim Burazima… Kuku i Riku morat će tada upotrijebiti svu svoju hrabrost i vještinu kako bi se vratili bezbrižnom kljucanju po seoskom dvorištu.
Book #2903
Coco and Rico
15,00 €This story, written and illustrated by Croatian writer and visual artist Nikolina Manojlović Vračar, follows the youth of two sibling roosters Coco and Rico. These two heroes were born on a farm owned by two music-lovers, and enjoyed a careless youth among other animals. But one day they were kidnapped from their home by two criminals who decided to turn them info fighting roosters and to make them participate in illegal rooster fights. When the day came for Coco to fight Rico, they had to use all their cunningness and intelligence to turn the fight into a travesty, escape and find their way home. By telling this animal adventure story, Nikolina Manojlović Vračar reflects on friendship, loyalty and nonviolent ways to subvert and contest violent behavior.
Book #3332
Dugog putovanja cilj
13,00 €Dugo putovanje na koje nas Michael Ende vodi obuhvaća Europu, Aziju, Afriku – gotovo čitav svijet. Ono se, međutim, ne odvija jedino u prostoru: od djetinjstva do besmrtnosti, od Engleske do Hindukuša, njegov junak Cyril Abercomby, blazirani engleski lord, očajnički će pokušavati pronaći bilo kakvu pripadnost. Njegovo putovanje se odvija od opće neosjetljivosti, preko krajnje patnje, do postojanja blistavog i usamljenog poput kristala. Smještajući tekst u svojevrsnu karikaturu viktorijanskog doba, Ende širokim i sigurnim literarnim potezima ocrtava život svog potpuno demonskog lika, njegove ljubavi kao i zločine, a kroz pukotine tog artificijelnog avanturističkog romana iz 19. stoljeća naziru se problemi koji svjedoče i o jednom potpuno drugom vremenu.
Book #2927
Self-Portrait in the Study
15,00 €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 20th century philosophical and literary scene: following Agamben from encounter to encounter, the reader meets Martin Heidegger, Guy Debord, Giorgio Manganelli, Elsa Morante, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gershom Scholem… The descriptions of these meetings and friendships are interlaced with authentic philosophical meditations on painting, language, poetry, history and inheritance, and, in the final analysis, with glimpses of that “universal science of man” about which Agamben dreamt together with Italo Calvino and Claudio Rugafiori. Agamben’s autobiography thus offers a lyrical synthesis of the three elements whose endless perturbations characterize the whole of the philosopher’s oeuvre: literature, philosophical discourse and a private life that must remain hidden forever.
Book #2912
Autoportret u radnoj sobi
15,00 €Autoportret u radnoj sobi, autobiografija Giorgia Agambena, jednog od najvećih suvremenih europskih filozofa, čitatelju donosi čitav niz izazovnih motiva. Agamben opisuje susrete koji su ga presudno oblikovali kao autora te time stvara veličanstven portret intelektualne kulture druge polovice 20. stoljeća. Čitatelj, zajedno s autorom, sreće Martina Heideggera, Guyja Deborda, Giorgia Manganellija, Elsu Morante, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gershoma Scholema…Kroz te susrete prosijavaju autentične filozofske meditacije o slikarstvu, jeziku, poeziji, povijesti i nasljeđu, a u konačnici se pojavljuju i tragovi one opće znanosti o čovjeku čije je konture Agamben pokušavao ocrtati zajedno s Italom Calvinom i Claudiom Rugafiorijem. Agambenova autobiografija pisana je izrazito profinjenim stilom te predstavlja konačnu sintezu elemenata čijim je igrama ovaj veliki filozof posvetio čitav opus: književnosti, filozofskog diskursa i privatnog života koji zauvijek ostaje skriven.
Book #2912
Zagreb through the Lens of Petar Gunjača
14,00 €In the legacy of Petar Gunjača (1924-2017), former employee in a furniture factory, known as photographer only to fans and collectors of photo equipment, were found several thousand photos, among them numerous shots of Zagreb from the 1960s and 1970s. Sometimes accidentally captured street scenes, sometimes persistent shooting of a same motive, sometimes deftly captured sport movement, suggestively evoke various urban atmospheres. Leading a kind of parallel life behind the lens, Petar Gunjača offers an impressive photographic opus and an interesting historical document. Inspired by Gunjača’s photos, the text writer Sanja Lovrenčić articulated her vision of the town in thirteen short prose fragments, intertwined with the story of the photographer’s life.
Book #3359
Zagreb u objektivu Petra Gunjače
14,00 €Monografija „Zagreb u objektivu Petra Gunjače“, sadrži stotinjak dosad neobjavljenih fotografija negdašnjeg samozatajnog zaposlenika poduzeća „Marko Šavrić“. U ostavštini Petra Gunjače (1924.-2017.), poznatoga tek ljubiteljima i skupljačima foto-opreme, našlo se nekoliko tisuća fotografija, među njima brojne snimke Zagreba iz šezdesetih i sedamdesetih godina prošlog stoljeća. Ponekad slučajno uhvaćen kadar, ponekad uporno snimanje istih motiva, ponekad spretno uhvaćen pokret sugestivno dočaravaju gradske atmosfere. Vodeći svojevrstan paralelni život iza fotoobjektiva, Petar Gunjača velikom dosljednošću i bez pretenzija bilježi život oko sebe. Rezultat je impresivan fotografski opus i povijesni dokument koji svjedoči o jednom vremenu. No ova knjiga nije tek zbirka starih fotografija; kao svojevrsna reakcija na sliku nastao je popratni tekst književnice Sanje Lovrenčić, artikuliran u trinaest kratkih proza, te je isprepletanjem vizualnih i književnih elemenata stvorena originalna i zanimljiva cjelina.
Book #2811
Dugog putovanja cilj