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In memoriam
The introductory poems should make us remember Zlatko Tomicic, the recently dead poet, important and versatile Croatian writer and patriot, who was in prison during communism because of his consistent and noble Croatian national feeling.
Contemporary literature
Fiction, poetry, and travel writing by contemporary Croatian authors from the Republic of Croatia and Voivodina (today a region in Serbia).
12. Soljan days in Rovinj
Essays, articles and studies presented last year at this traditional meeting dedicated to the big twentieth century Croatian writer with European references, Antun Soljan. He is here presented as an anthologist, but the topic also covers the tradition of anthologies and anthological practice in Croatian literature – from the Middle Ages to today.
New translations
New translations into Croatian refer to the contemporary French (Franz Bartelt), Polish (Radoslaw Kobierski), Albanian (Arian Leka), and Italian (written in Croatia – Laura Marchig) literature.
Studies, essays, and notes
Among other things, the study on Breda Urbic, the Slovene actress who spent a significant part of her career at Croatian theatres, particularly at the Pula Theatre.
Memory
Two interesting texts by younger Croatian female authors; one on Stalin as a motif and character in the contemporary Soviet and Russian literature, and another one on the "amnesia" suffered by some Croats today in connection with recent communist history, also including the uncritical tribute paid to "the image and work" and the cult-personality of Josip Broz Tito.
Music
There is also an exceptionally interesting study on the lesser known and almost forgotten Franciscan conventualist born in Pula, Giacomo Gorlatto, also a distinguished composer, whose life and creation in his maturity were mainly related to Padua.
Contributions on native regions
The native region topic is again dedicated to the literary-historical and philological analysis of a written monument, the most important one to the Croats in Istria, the so-called Istarski razvod (thirteenth century).
Reviews
Recent editions by contemporary Croatian writers and scientists as well as books translated into Croatian.
Published 2008-09-24
Original in Croatian
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