Since the whole world, especially Europe, was literally obsessed this year by 1914 and the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, causing almost the inflation of this term, we could not resist touching on this in the introduction in our o
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Literary and Cultural Journal
Pula, Croatia, No. 3-4/2014
Summary
Since the whole world, especially Europe, was literally obsessed this year by 1914 and the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, causing almost the inflation of this term, we could not resist touching on this in the introduction in our own way.
Just like usual, contemporary literature is represented by well-established and less known writers, different genres and generations of writers who belong to the current literary production in Croatia.
New translations include a selection from the contemporary Bulgarian short stories, as well as from the Spanish and Italian poetry.
There are two sections which present current issues: the first one is dedicated to optimism in this harsh time of modern civilization, while the second one is about politics and politicians, viewed mostly as the profiteers of democracy in the so-called globalized world.
The section containing reviews and essays presents, among other things, tough and severe, grounded in theory and practice, criticism of liberal capitalism, that seems to have no masks under which to hide its own exploiting and manipulative essence.
The contribution on our native region considers the periodicals that were published in German in Pula (the main naval port in the Empire), under the Austro-Hungarian rule, till the end of World War I and disintegration of the Monarchy.
Finally, critical texts are on literary and historical topics and new books in the fields related to them. It should mention a survey of the first anthology of Montenegrin poetry by poetesses (originally released in Croatia), and a survey of a non-critical, in ideological terms completely exclusive monograph about the time of the communist dictator Josip Broz Tito, who is still glorified in Croatia by many people, without any valid, object arguments, that is, in a diehard manner from the ideological point of view, with common sense deficit and surplus emotions.
Translation:
Renata Šamo, Pula
Janko Rožič, Ljubljana
Akademik Goran Filipi, Pula
Dr. sc. Stijepo Mijović Kočan, Zagreb
Tomislav Kovačević, Crikvenica
Žarko Milenić, Brčko
Dr. sc. Zijad Duraković, Zagreb
Mladen Jurčić, Zagreb
Ana Horvat, Zagreb
Dragan Gortan, Pazin
Ivana Primorac, Zagreb
Dr. sc. Željka Lovrenčić, Zagreb
Mr. sc. Vanesa Begić, Pula
Simone Mocenni, Milano
Josip Cvenić, Osijek
Branko Čegec, Zagreb
Vesna Krmpotić, Beograd
Mr. sc. Dragutin Lučić Luce, Zagreb
Dr. sc. Irena Lukšić, Duga Resa
Dr. sc. Julijana Matanović, Zagreb
Ivan Molek, Zagreb
Jovan Nikolaidis, Ulcinj
Dr. sc. Sibila Petlevski, Zagreb
Marko Sosič, Trst
Sanja Širec Rovis, Trst
Goran Starčević, Zagreb
Dr. sc. Irvin Lukežić
Dr. sc. Alen Tafra, Pula
Dr. sc. Miroslava Tušek, Zagreb
Božica Zoko, Gradište
Darija Žilić, Zagreb
Dr. sc. Sandi Blagonić, Pazin
Božica Jelušić, Đurđevac
Dr. sc. Slaven Letica, Zagreb
Dr. sc. Jelena Lužina, Skopje
Dr. sc. Fahrudin Novalić, Zagreb
Dr. sc. Antun Pavešković, Zagreb
Dr. sc. Nino Raspudić
Dr. sc. Igor Šipić, Split
Ivana Šojat-Kuči, Osijek
Dr. sc. Bruno Dobrić, Pula
Miodrag Kalčić, Pula
Davor Šalat, Zagreb
Mr. sc. Božidar Petrač, Zagreb
Zdravko Kordić, Mostar
Šura Dumanić, Rijeka
Dr. sc. Slaven Bertoša, Pula
Mirjan Flego, Štrped
Dr. Renata Šamo, Pula