Syllogism: Homeland – Man – Beast Cover Image

Silogizam: Zavičaj – Čovjek – Zvijer
Syllogism: Homeland – Man – Beast

Author(s): Igor Šipić
Subject(s): Croatian Literature, Cultural Essay, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Društvo hrvatskih književnika Herceg-Bosne
Keywords: Essay; Syllogism; Igor Šipić; Croatian literature;

Summary/Abstract: This essayistic presentation above all aims to point out a writer who may be unknown to literature, and at the same time one of the important Croatian reportage journalists, globetrotters, who left behind deep roots of travel writing, reading of very high criteria, sought after by readers, always in a good mood. As an employee of the largest Croatian media companies (among others, he also wrote for National Geographic), traveling around the country and the world, he left us a rich, almost pharaonic treasury of records, not from his own, but from the lives of others, most often a small, ordinary man, a peasant whom he encountered on the way, a herdsman in front of his flock, a fisherman in front of a storm, a shopkeeper and a bum. A man of the people or a man of the common people, of his homeland, the author of the anthology "Small places of my heart", he will translate that experience inspired into works that delight not only with their stylistic excellence, but also with the originality of linguistic performance as we knew and had the opportunity to learn from older writers of Dalmatian roots. , or even better, in the beauty and weight of hardened Zagora. We add another powerful name to their legacy in Croatian literature.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 113-114
  • Page Range: 155-165
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Croatian