Publisher: Durieux

16.50 €

Marx u digitalnom dobu. Dijalektički materijalizam na vratima tehnologije

Author(s): Katarina Peović / Language(s): Croatian

Marx in the Digital Age. Dialectical Materialism on the Gates of Technology is a book that questions the understanding of political emancipation with the help of new technologies. It asks how new technologies, especially new media, can contribute to the democratisation of society and emancipation of minority cultures. The book elaborates systematically and epistemologically on the question of emancipatory politics on the Internet, ideology and its reflection onto the new media problems, the changes in the structure and character of work in the age of cognitariat, and the understanding of the concept of »virtuality«. The author uses theoretical tools of many philosophers and theorists, such as Heidegger, Foucault, and Lacan, bridging the gap between classical philosophy and technology. The book is an eloquent elaboration of the contemporary techno–scientific, and politico-economical order, and offers a grounded new media theory from the perspective of the critique of the political economy. Katarina Peović is an assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Studies on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Comparative Literature on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She edited a collection of articles by the American theorist Hakim Bey, Contemporary Autonomous Zones and Other Texts (2003). In the year 2012, she published the book Media and Culture. Media Ideology after the Decentralisation. She published her works in the journals Crisis & Critique, Badiou Studies, Stasis, Književna smotra, Trípodos, and Synthesis Philosophica.

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25.00 €

Napetice iskosa. Glazba u doba hi-fia

Author(s): Aleksandar Mihalyi / Language(s): Croatian

Askance Thrillers is a voluminous collection of texts on music written by the radio host and editor Aleksandar Mihalyi. Why Askance Thrillers? Because the music scene is so divergent (judging by theoretical texts and the heterogeneity in style and genre), that it blocks an easy access to its listeners, except for an exclusive access to individual groups. Simply put - each of the existing groups has its theoretical logistics that is dedicated to themselves, and that ignores the existence of others. Inside the groups and especially between them, there is a tension that is being hidden or heightened. If there was no intensive, strong and diverse music or audio creative scene behind this (with numerous participants and manifestations), these texts would not exist. The disunity is a consequence of the lack of a dominant creative model, and, paradoxically, that is the reason we have such a rich and pluralistic scene. How good it is and what is good about it is left without clear and unambiguous answer. The scale of value is established inside the borders of a group or an ism. The book shows the exceptional wealth offered by the contemporary music scene in its possible development. Never in the history has an individual been offered such a divergent scene of the contemporary music: Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Ton Koopman, Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass, directed by Robert Wilson and performed by his ensemble, In vain by Georg Friedrich Haas performed by Klangforum from Vienna or vocal performances of Ami Yoshida. What they have in common is the shock of the new or a dedication of excellent musicians, and reaching the cultural, interpretational and perceptive limits. We are contemporaries with all that! This book is also a kind of a Baedeker that will help you get an insight into what is going on, and who are the protagonists. Lastly, it will provide recommendations on what to choose to listen, watch and read among individual types of expression. The book is written to affirm the creation of order and quicker access to today’s music scene. Even the confusion of terms is too big, and restoring the order is Sisyphean task. For example, if you read that a composer belongs to eclecticism, postmodernism, polystylism, somewhat to Russian mysticism, spiritual minimalism, and that he has all the familiar characteristics of his generation, what do you expect to hear? This book offers an essential survey of the contemporary recorded music from early polyphony to laptop music. It is a guide for today’s music scene. Aleksandar Mihalyi was born in 1949, in Zagreb. He is a long-time editor of the discophilic magazine WAM. For twelve years he worked as a host and an editor of radio shows dedicated to the contemporary music on the Croatian Radio's Third Programme.

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Obrane okusa smrti

Author(s): Željka Matijašević / Language(s): Croatian

Into a loosely constructed love story, Željka Matijašević incorporates a dialogue between Id, Ego, and Super-Ego, and a quarrel between Freud, Jung and Lacan; an essayistic comparison of Julian Barnes and Gustave Flaubert, and many other, apparently, disparate elements. This hybrid novel was written as a structural homage to Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot. Plot-wise, it is a story about a couple who cannot realise their relationship. Mixing psychoanalytic theory with the ludic narration, Matijašević creates a wonderfully witty piece of writing. Željka Matijašević was born in 1968, in Zagreb. She graduated in Comparative Literature, and French Language and Literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She obtained her doctor's degree at the Trinity College of the Cambridge University. She is a full-professor at the Department of the Comparative Literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her main interests are psychoanalytic theory and applied psychoanalysis. She is an author of six scientific books: Lacan: ustrajnost dijalektike (2005), Strukturiranje nesvjesnog: Freud i Lacan (2006), Uvod u psihoanalizu: Edip, Hamlet, Jekyll/Hyde (2011), Stoljeće krhkog sebstva: psihoanaliza, društvo, kultura (2016), Drama, drama (2020), and The Borderline Culture (2021). She also authored one novel, Defences with the Taste of Death (2019), and a lexicon Black Lymph/Green Heart: The Alternative Lexicon of Soul (2017). She is a member of La Fondation Européenne pour la Psychanalyse and the Croatian Writers Society.

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25.00 €

Odabrani tekstovi

Author(s): Nena Dimitrijević,Braco Dimitrijević,Branko Franceschi / Language(s): Croatian

The Selected Texts include critiques, essays, and interviews that the art historian Nena Dimitrijević and the artist Braco Dimitrijević have published both in Croatia and foreign countries during their prolific period that has lasted more than forty years. The significance of this book surpasses the effort needed to collect, and translate this bulk of material. Having in mind that the authors’ carriers, whose success is almost a precendent in the Balkans, have been built upon the international art scene, the Croatian readers have not been familiar with most of their textst published in foreign countries. This book will be very useful for those who shape the reality and future of the domestic art context today. It offers testimonies by the creators and participants of the most significant art phenomena from the second half of the 20th century. It also presents a critical and creative model, and criteria for actively influencing the found structure of a cultural system, which the authors of the book have applied in their performance. In the end, the book offers retrospectively a method for the objective viewing and verification of the highly esteemed conceptual art period, especially the art of the Zagreb circle, with both of them being its valued protagonists. Nena and Braco Dimitrijević are an unusually well-balanced creative couple. Nena Dimitrijević’s curating and critical work is renowned because she has consistently promoted, in print, digital media and exhibitions, the radical strategies of the artists of her generation. She has conceptually and linguistically modernised the media of visual arts critique, and the exhibition practice. Braco Dimitrijević has established himself as one of the leading innovators on the contemporary global art scene with his famous artistic actions and projects that reflect his radical attitudes on the fundamental questions about the art creation and its position in society, that is, the relation of an individual and the political power, or an artist and cultural system. Braco Dimitrijević created his status also by his essential separation from the dominating theoretical, historical, cultural and civilisational models. Nena and Braco’s works overlap in their stance that the sense of the artwork is its cognitive and ethical dimensions, which, articulated into an aesthetic form, operate beneficially and constructively inside the artistic, and wider social discourses. Artists, critics, curators, institutions, and collectors have their distinctive roles in their respective missions. Although the Dimitrijevićs are often percieved as a pair of creative people who are directed toward each other, their separate careers, that of a successful artist, and a successful critic, show the development of the same theoretical standpoint in different areas of work.

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Omara

Author(s): Iva Ušćumlić / Language(s): Croatian

The novel Swelter by Iva Ušćumlić, who has shown her remarkable skills with her first novel Ghosts, provides an atmospheric picture of a hot summer in Zagreb, when a woman goes missing, and of the lives of her family that turn into a nightmare. Although the mystery of the missing woman is in the foreground of the story, we cannot classify this book as a crime fiction only. The crime plot intertwines with the inner life of the protagonists, and with an analysis of one love. The text eventually evolves into a metaphysical questioning of that most important of all feelings: what does it consist of, what triggers it, what ends it. As opposed to many other hybrid texts, this novel has no visible seams where the elements of pulp and highbrow literature meet. The narration glides so easily it is difficult to separate the crime story from the metaphysical questions. It all merges into one homogeneous, compact discourse without fissures. The narrator analeptically plays with the plot and the story, with the “now” and “then”, constructing a story that becomes more interesting, real and familiar with each page. The plot that is wedged into a few hot months actually stretches across thirty years, creating a perfect mosaic. Iva Ušćumlić was born in 1977 in Zagreb. She is an author of the highly praised novels Ghosts (2013) and Swelter (2017). She started her career as a journalist. Today the creates various stories, each adapted to its medium, from copywriting in the marketing industry, essays and books, and socially engaged flash fiction, to notes on social networks. The sharp and witty notes brought her on the prestigious list of the biggest influencers on the Balkans. This multitalented author is a passionate photographer, and her photography is, as her writing, very intimate. Both her writing and photography possess a peculiar style, and sophisticated sense of rhythm. Ušćumlić is known for her ad hoc essays where she reinterprets apparently ordinary everyday scenes in an original way that encourages thinking and discussion.

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12.00 €

Osvetinje

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

Considering the difficulty of the novel's theme, the composure of narration, and the writing skills, one would not think The Sacravenges was Amir Alagić's debut novel. Alagić elevates the art of narration to an exceptional level, so much so that each of the characters becomes a novel in itself – there is nothing too insignificant for the author, and he is able to discover infinity in details. Sadly, people from the seaside town, which is the novel's setting, dedicate their inner infinity only to revenge. They are crumbling inside like their country that has descended into war. Although aware they are hurling into a terrible eternity, they have decided to taste the infernal agonies during their lifetime. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

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6.00 €

PALE. Dnevnik 5.4. - 15.7.1992

Author(s): Mladen Vuksanović / Language(s): Croatian

Set at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia, this diary records the extraordinary unfolding of events. The author lived in the ski resort of Pale, 15km above Sarajevo. In April 1992, when Radovan Karadžić launches his savage assault on the city. Vuksanović - refusing to collaborate - becomes a prisoner in his own home, cut off from his children and friends below. He expressed his terror and disgust within these pages. During that time, he describes in chilling detail not only the horrifying war - with the looting, ethnic cleansing and betrayal that became commonplace - but also the mental strain of war on the individual. He and his wife finally managed to escape in a UN refugee bus via Hungary to Croatia, smuggling with them these notes from enemy territory.<br>About the Author: Mladen Vuksanović was born in Pale in 1942, to a Bosnian Croat mother and a Bosnian Serb father. An award-winning screenwriter and editor for Sarajevo TV before the war, Vuksanović published this book in Zagreb in 1996. He died nin 1999; his novel, Taksi za Jahoriu (Taxi to Jahorina), was published posthumously in 2000.

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Populacija II

Author(s): Goran Bogunović / Language(s): Croatian

Populacija II is a collection of hybrid prose pieces. The pieces are a mix of essays, short stores and autobiographical narratives that the author Goran Bogunović merges to write about ordinary events juxtaposing them to eccentric and peculiar ideas. The resulting products are beautifully witty and insightful stories about musical concerts, writing, and posthumanist sentiments. The narration is laid back, full of humorous details, and apparently unimportant observations that are actually an invitation to a deeper questioning of the nature of things. In his investigations of the strange side of the everyday, he is led by Ry Cooder and Kraftwerk, Sebald and Perec, Captain Beefheart and Kruno Levačić. The implicit message that shapes on the edges of the texts is that man is not the measure of all things, and that the world would go on without him. Various cheerful and wistful forms of the posthumanist sentiment permeate these story-essays that range from simpler and comical to more complex and serious, ending with the beautyful and poetical, eponymous »Population II«. Goran Bogunović was born in 1972, in Zagreb. He graduated from the Faculty of Electronical Engineering and Computing, and from the Faculty of Economics and Business. His literary works have been published in Croatian and foreign journals and magazines, and on the radio. He published collections of poetry Here (Matica hrvatska Karlovac, Karlovac 2002), The Area of High Cloudiness (Naklada Mlinarec — Plavić, Zagreb, 2004), and Things Are Getting More Distant (Edicija Pesničenje, Beograd 2013). He also published short story collections Everything Will Be All Right (Naklada Minarec — Plavić, 2003), and Sloths and Other Stories (Kornet, Beograd, 2007). His poems and stories have been translated into various languages. He played guitar in several bands (Tobić Tobić idol mladih, U pol 9 kod Sabe etc.). He is a producer of several bands. Currently, he plays in the band Radost!

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20.00 €

Rod i Balkan

Author(s): Marina Matešić,Svetlana Slapšak / Language(s): Croatian

Marina Matešić's and Svetlana Slapšak's book Gender and Balkans incorporates two studies on gendering of Balkanism, i.e, on the gendered reading of Balkanism. In the forst part, the authors write about the historical practice of presenting the Balkans by male travelers only to contrast them with the travelogues by women authors of the 18th and 19th centuries, who broke down patriarchal representations of the Balkans. Analysing travelogues by Mary Wortley Montagu, Emily Strangford, Dora d’Istria, Jelena Dimitrijević, Maria Karlova, Paulina Irby and Georgina Mackenzie, Matešić and Slapšak infer that their protofeminist role frequently went hand in hand with their imperialist tendencies. The second study is about the gender situation in the 20th century Balkans. It questions the concept of gender, its appropriation for various arbitrary theses, and its subsequent contamination. The authors also indicate that the notion of mobility is politically marked. Svetlana Slapšak was born in 1948, in Belgrade, where she graduated in classical philology at the Faculty of Philology. Her PhD thesis was on the Vuk Karadžić's dictionary and calcs from Greek language. Slapšak worked at the Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade, and from 1986, she has been a professor at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She has published more than 50 books, and 400 scientific papers in anthropology, gender studies, Balkanology, and feminist criticism. She translated numerous books from latin, old Greek, French and English into Serbian language. For her work she was awarded several literary and peace awards. Marina Matešić was born in Split. She graduated in philosophy, literature and gender studies, and obtained her PhD with the thesis on gender anthropology at the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis in Ljubljana. She won scholarships as a guest researcher at the Duke University in the USA, and the Humboldt–Universität in Berlin. Her areas of interest are the construction of gender and sexuality, cultural identities and migrations, feminism, Balkanology and postcolonialist criticism.

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10.00 €

Šake pune oblaka i druge drame

Author(s): Lejla Kalamujić / Language(s): Bosnian

Lejla Kalamujić has won our hearts with her excellent short story collection Call Me Esteban, and with this collection of plays she will keep us under the same strong impression. Fists Full of Clouds and Other Plays include the eponymous play, Let’s Turn off the Light, and She-Cannibal, which has been successfully staged in the Balkans. The plays are related by tackling the contemporary social problems: the stigma of homosexual and transgender people, loneliness of the elderly, and growing up without parents. Cutting deeply into the tissue of society, Kalamujić reveals also the destructive effects of Yugoslavia’s disintegration, whose citizens afterwards lost their sense of belonging. The author approaches her characters with warmth and empathy, offering them the possibility of a different, better future. To the deviations of humaneness Kalamujić responds with hope. Lejla Kalamujić was born in 1980 in Sarajevo, where she graduated in philosophy and sociology. She published two short story collections, Anatomy of a Smile (2008.), and Call Me Esteban (2015). For the latter she won the “Edo Budiša” Award. She was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature in 2016. She also won numerous short story awards.

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Sindikati između rada i kapitala

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Slovenian,Serbian

This edited volume seeks to address the current issues of trade unions, trade unionism and labour, of its present and of its future. It is divided into three parts: I. Workers’ dilemma - the crisis of the trade union; II. Trade unions and workers: case studies of BiH, Croatia and Serbia and III. Trade unions in the social teachings of the Catholic Church. The book offers sociological, historical, philosophical, and political science and activist views on labour, trade unions and capital. Contributions use case studies, surveys, interviews, content analysis, discourse analysis, and analysis of documents to bring new and relevant findings. The articles also propose some solution models to the current crisis. This collection holds valuable lessons for both union leadership and membership.

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Splitting: Kako sam tražio Srbe po gradu

Author(s): Damir Pilić / Language(s): Croatian

In the novel "Splitting", with the ominously ambiguous subtitle "How I Searched for Serbs in the City" (which in another culture, say Czech, could be the title of some Hašek humoresque), a whole world of good neighbours, friends and schoolmates cracks at the seams and collapses. Based on the experience of youth that is maturing in the shade of socialist blocks of Split through games of football, first drunkenness, petty theft, skipping classes and confused, casual sex, Split youth suddenly, still green, learns that "we are not all the same", this prose precisely depicts and demystifies the time in which the Dalmatian metropolis shockingly and forever changed its face. The plot of the novel mostly takes place in one of Split's neighborhoods inhabited by former Yugoslav military (JNA) personnel, mostly serving in the former naval base of Lora, in the period from the New Year 1990 to November 15 of 1991, when the first shells from the ships of the then Yugoslav navy fell on Split. Told from the perspectives of several characters, mostly underage high school students, who show more or less misunderstanding and resistance to the changes that are taking place, this Split story seems more authentic and true than anything written so far about the period. With this novel, journalist and publicist Damir Pilić has established himself as an excellent narrator. Damir Pilić was born in 1969 in Šibenik. He has a master's degree in psychology and a degree in journalism from Zagreb University. He published the scientific monograph Samoubojstva: oproštajna pisma (Suicides: Farewell Letters, 1998); the novels Đavo prvo pojede svoju majku (The Devil Eats His Mother First, 2001), Splitting (2014) and Kao da je sve normalno (As if Everything is Normal, 2018); the journalistic study Marx nije mrtav (Marx is Not Dead, 2016) as well as Tito očima Krleže (Tito Through The Eyes of Krleža, 2020). In co-authorship with Dražen Lalić, he published a book about young Split delinquents Na mladima svijet zastaje (The World Stops for Young People, 2001) and the monograph Torcida: Pogled iznutra (Torcida: An Inside View, 2011), and with Ed Vujević a study on former heroin addicts Dedal na iglama (Daedalus on Needles, 2005). From 1994 to 2001 he worked as a reporter for Feral Tribune, and since 2001 he writes for Slobodna Dalmacija newspapers. He lives in Split.

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Stogodišnje djetinjstvo

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

In his debut novel The Sacravenges, Amir Alagić already showed his deep understanding of human soul. There he also elevated the art of description to the highest level, reaching the innermost depths through the exterior surface. In his second novel, Hundred Years' Childhood he ventured farther in developing his art. This time the stage of human drama is the Croatian city of Pula. The time spans across the whole century encompassing not only the contemporary period, but also the First and Second World Wars. The city becomes a real theatrum mundi, an intersection of destinies of different nationalities, where each life becomes a story in itself, and whose familiar localities testify about the transience of life. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

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20.00 €

Topoi umjetnosti performansa: lokalna vizura

Author(s): Suzana Marjanić / Language(s): Croatian

The book The Topoi of Performance Art: A Local Perspective (Durieux, HS AICA, 2017) by Suzana Marjanić is a follow-up on the research of performance art from a local perspective, which I sought to integrate in the book The Chronotope of Croatian Performance Art: From Traveleri until Today (Bijeli val Association, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Školska knjiga, 2014), structured as the first review of the history of performance art in Croatia focusing on the performative energies of individual centres (e.g. Zagreb, Varaždin, Osijek, Dubrovnik, Split, Rijeka, Labin, Pula). By changing the chronotopic perspective to that of motif and subject, in the book The Topoi of Performance Art: A Local Perspective I seek to explore performance art within the framework of its dominant topoi ranging from personal (personal mythologies) to political (criticism of political ethno/myths). While relying on the very political dimension, as the motto of the book I have chosen the statement of Igor Grubić on the occasion of his anonymous individual action Black Peristyle (held in the night between January 10 and 11, 1998), which was the first action and provocation supported by Croatia’s civic initiative of the 1990s and an action of exceptional civic courage. (author) “The edition you are holding in your hands is a different book in terms of content and organisation – many of the texts it contains were written and published following the finalisation of the Chronotope, and focus on specific subjects present in performance art or regard the performance works in relation to other genres and contexts outside or on the margins of that which we conventionally label with the term visual art. The author sovereignly tackles the analysis of the intertwining of performance art and experimental and pop music, performing arts, feminist and environmental activism, struggle for animal and human rights, as well as phenomena such as terrorism, refugee crisis, and other key political and social issues of our time.” (Marko Golub, editor)

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Tuneli

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

On a New Year's Eve someone – the narrator or destiny – threw their web over the city. In Amir Alagić's new novel, Tunnels, the sudden death of a stranger in a bar multiplies in a game of mirrors. The game reveals that apparently random bar guests are connected by invisible tunnels. If we decide to venture through those tunnels, we will embark on a dangerous journey and risk getting nothing in the end. Maybe there is no light at the end of the tunnel, but it is enough for this fascinating story to light our way. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

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Vjetrenjasta klepsidra. Autobiografske zabilješke 1924-1942

Author(s): Branko Polić / Language(s): Croatian

Branko Polić was born on April 24, 1924 in Zagreb. As a Jew, he was forced to spend about ten months of childhood and early youth on various coastal resorts. In 1945, he successfully mastered the classical grammar school and then studied at Sorbonne where he gained a French-language fellowship diploma. Upon returning, in 1948, he continued his studies in English and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, "in a record time", in 1950. He was soon admitted to the Radio Radio of Zagreb and thanks to musical affinities became a critic in the music program, then the editor of the music-speaking editorial (1956-1964). After the establishment of the Third Program, he became editor and commentator until his retirement (1985), and thereafter a regular associate. <br> Branko Polić met and talked with over five hundred reproductive artists, and collected fascinating documentary and music material on many of the travels he took as a music editor. While several thousand of his shows have "gone into ether," dozens of articles, discussions, presentations, essays, criticisms and translations have been scattered across domestic and foreign journals, newspapers, lexicons and collections.

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Život s njima

Author(s): Nenad Popović / Language(s): Croatian

A book of essays Living with Them is the anatomy of the last Yugoslav decade, and the first three decades of Croatian reality. As an autonomous observer, and an analyst of cultural and ideological patterns, Nenad Popović creates a sketch for the typology of Croatian intellectuals, artists and politicians’ public personae. He creates sketches of mindsets that harbour religious fundamentalism, Yugonostalgia, or partake in the phenomena of mass culture. As in his previous books and public interventions, Popović is a pessimistic chronicler of his time, and his essays are qualified testimonies of a disjointed, crazy time in which Croatia and Europe are looking for themselves - spiritually, politically and economically. This book is a kind of Popović’s “private encyclopaedia” of Croatia. Although the author sees only caricatures and dramas of the big Croatian self-deception and its continuous blindness, from the late communism until this day, we can still discern his invitation to take a mirror in our hands. Publisher, translator, and writer Nenad Popović was born in Zagreb in 1950. He attended colleges in Zagreb and Bonn, and Freiburg with the scholarship Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. He graduated in German Language and Literature and South Slavic Languages and Literature from the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1980. he became an editor, and afterwards the head editor of the publishing house Graphical Institute of Croatia. In 1990. he co-founded the publishing house Durieux, one of the first independent private publishing houses in Croatia, where he worked as the head editor until 2013. In 1999. he participated in founding of the literary Group 99. In 2002 he became one of founders of the Croatian Writers’ Society, becoming its vice-president afterwards. Since 1978, he has occasionally written for newspapers, magazines and radio, and since 1985 for the media of German speaking countries (Manuskripte, Literatur und Kritik, Kulturaustausch, Frankfurter Rundschau, Die Zeit, Weltwoche, et al.). For theatre he translated such authors as Sternheim, Bruckner, Bernhard, Fassbinder among others. He also translated books by Erwin Piscator, Kazimir Malevič, Boris Kelemen, Benn Meyer-Wehlack, Tilla Durieux and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. During Bosnian wars, he translated articles by Bosnian writers (Karahasan, Lovrenović, Filipović, Jergović) for German newspapers and magazines. He published books A World in Shadow (2008), A Treatise on Population (2014), Diary from the City of P. (2017), and Living with Them (2021). For his work he received many awards and accolades: Premio '92 per il lavoro letterario from the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb (1992), The Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (1999), and, with Freimut Duve, Bruno Kreisky Award (1999). He was also awarded the Hermann Kesten Medal by the German PEN Centre in 2000. The same year he became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo. He is a member of the following organisations: Croatian PEN Centre, Cap Anamur - German Emergency Doctors, Cologne; Journalisten helfen Journalisten, München; International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo; Association of Literary Translators of Croatia. He lives in Pula.

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