Nova Istra

288 NOVA ISTRA Literary, Art and Cultural Journal Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kultur Rivista di letteratura, arte e cultura Pula, Croatia / Kroatien / Croazia, No. 3-4/2019 Summary The current issue is almost entirely on one topic – suffering – as defined, ‘read’, explained, understood, presented... by the distinguished writers, literary reviewers and theoreticians, essayists, philosophers and other experts in the humanities who gathered at the 15 th Pula Essay Days in October 2017. This respectable internatio­ nal meeting, year after year, questions a certain topic, selected from those which are globally important to those which are more specific, i.e. national, Croatian culture- oriented or focused on culture, literature and other arts. At Marul’s section, entitled like this to honour Marko Marulić (Marcus Marulus Spalatensis, 1550 – 1524), the great Croatian and European writer, thinker and intellectual, also Christian and humanistic, presents poems by a couple of younger authors, who took part in the 7 th annual meeting of young writers, held in Pula in May 2018. The third unit includes a more comprehensive literary review section, presenting re­ cent and newly released titles (fiction, poems, travelogues, essays, etc.) from the con­ temporary Croatian, Polish, French and Columbian literatures. (Translated by R. Šamo)