158 NOVA ISTRA Literary, Art and Cultural Journal Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kultur Rivista di letteratura, arte e cultura Pula, Croatia / Kroatien / Croazia, No. 2/2023 Summary This time the introductory section brings some new pieces of prose and poetry, even much current aphorisms (a decreasingly represented kind of literature today), that are mostly signed by the Croatian well-established writers, but also by the promising ones. The translation section then presents the poetry of a contemporary author from Argentina. Particular attention should be paid to the first part of the comprehensive literaryscientific essay about the time, memory, oblivion..., Searching for the Bygone Days, with a title that is somewhat Proustian, of course. A more comprehensive study-essay is about the philosophy of film as exemplified by Siegfried Kracauer – the writer, sociologist, culturologist, film theoretician... The contributions about the native region deal with the Croatian as well as with the wider historical-political spaces in general, with an emphasis on the period of the fascist terror in Istria between the two world wars (showing, for instance, how everything that was Croatian, esp. school education, was pushed away and destroyed by the Italian occupiers). There is also a contribution about a topic that is still open to debates, being so much manipulated in the Italian right-wing historiography and the current official policy of Italy, i.e., calamities in the so-called fojbe (the Karstlocated caves) that appeared soon after the capitulation of Mussolini’s state and regime, also the arrival of German occupiers, and Rommel’s offensive in the westernmost parts of Croatia in the early autumn of 1943. The last section usually includes reviews and critical remarks with regard to a series of (more) recent publications belonging to literature in Croatian and translations from other languages. Translated by R. Šamo, Pula
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