Nova Istra - Literary and Cultural Journal No. 1/2002.
This issue of Nova Istra carries a rich selection of dramatic, poetic and prose pieces from Croatian contemporary literature, written by prominent as well as young, new authors.
A rich selection of translated literature begins with a recent Croatian translation of the XXVI Canto of Dante’s Inferno, followed by a couple of extensive essays by André Breton (What is surrealism?) and Louis Aragon (Wave of Dreams). We have also included in this selection translations of the 20th century Japanese literature, namely pieces written by Ango Sakaguchi and Kenji Miyazawa. Contemporary Australian literature is represented in this issue by the poetry of Kath Walker.
We wish to encourage our readers to pay special attention to the essays and studies with the following subject matter: Trieste as a recurrent theme in the works of certain Croatian writers and the "Black Arab" as a Mediterranean (theatrological) topos.
We would like to single out the articles dealing with sociology and/or philosophy: the Balkans as the collective underground of the West (in: Traumas of Imaginary Geography) and planetary bio-ethical dimension of discrimination of women.
We have published a movie review of Hannibal by Ridley Scott, and a review of a recent Croatian performance of Büchner’s Woyzeck. Among critical reviews we wish to single out those about the books by J.L. Borges, Isabel Allende, Apostolos Doxiadis and the works of theoreticians of anarchism: Wolff, Goldman, and Reclus.
The visual contributions in this issue are the work of a painter from Pula, Ivan Dabo.