240 NOVA ISTRA Literary, Art and Cultural Journal Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kultur Rivista di letteratura, arte e cultura Pula, Croatia / Kroatien / Croazia, No. 3/2023 Summary The extraordinary introductory section is in memoriam to the dear colleague, collaborator and friend, historian and professor emeritus Miroslav Bertoša (1938 – 2023), a prominent name not only in Croatian but also in international historiography. The introductory section usually presents new prose and poetry pieces by contemporary writers. This time the translation-related section brings a contribution from the Lithuanian literature to the readership. We put emphasis on the second and the final part of the comprehensive literaryscientific essay about time, memory, oblivion, Searching for the Bygone Days, which is clearly somewhat Proustian as its title suggests. The current study deals with a topic and an author associated with the contemporary Italian literature, that is, presents a writer who lives in Croatia but belongs to both literatures. The real reason for including this contribution lies in the book of his poetry and prose that has recently been translated in Croatian and published by the Istrian Branch of the Croatian Writers’ Associations (the publisher of this journal, as well). The philosophical review refers to an author and his book containing poetic-philosophical essays and studies, also published by the Istrian Branch of the Croatian Writers’ Associations. The native region section is polemical, covering the national film festival that has already been held in Pula for some seven decades, which is today very well-known as the Pula Film Festival. In a special section, with the contributions by a few authors, we comprehensively survey an author and his emblematic novel of a very complicated destiny (mainly because of political reasons), which has been translated into Croatian (publisher the Istrian Branch of the Croatian Writers’ Association). His work is highly ranked, on the very top of the Italian literature in Croatia after the Second World War. As always, the last section includes critical remarks and reviews about a series of (more) recent publications selected from the Croatian and translated (this time Bohemian) literature, mostly fiction titles, but also one new title in the field of philosophy (again published by the Istrian Branch of the Croatian Writers’ Association). Translated by R. Šamo, Pula
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