Un écrivain croate de premier plan et une figure centrale de la vie culturelle de la Yougoslavie. Son œuvre a souvent été proclamée comme la plus grande œuvre de la littérature croate du XXe siècle. Son écriture reflète une profonde compréhension de la nature humaine et des enjeux sociétaux.
Until the age of fifty-two, the protagonist of On the Edge of Reason suffered a monotonous existence as a highly respected lawyer. He owned a carriage and wore a top hat. He lived the life of "an orderly good-for-nothing among a whole crowd of neat, gray good-for-nothings." But, one evening, surrounded by ladies and gentlemen at a party, he hears the Director-General tell a lively anecdote of how he shot four men like dogs for trespassing on his property. In response, our hero blurts out an honest thought. From this moment, all hell breaks loose. Written in 1938, On the Edge of Reason reveals the fundamental chasm between conformity and individuality. As folly piles upon folly, hypocrisy upon hypocrisy, reason itself begins to give way, and the edge between reality and unreality disappears.
Of Krleža's many writings – poems, plays, short stories and novels – The Return of Philip Latinowicz is the most widely acclaimed. Philip, the protagonist, is a successful but disillusioned painter of some international repute who returns to a small cathedral town in Croatia after an absence of twenty-three years. He hopes that revisiting his cultural roots will inspire him to create the perfect work of art and thereby restore his faith in both art and life. Haunted by his troubled childhood, however, he falls in with shady characters and discovers the emotional, intellectual, and imaginative poverty of small-town decadence. In The Return of Philip Latinowicz Krleža explores the rottenness at the heart of bourgeois life, its dishonesty and its poverty of spirit. At the same time, he explores the tensions pulling on an artist caught in two worlds and facing existentialist doubts.
A bold new collection of the writings of Miroslav Krleža, in English for the first time. Miroslav Krleža was a giant of Yugoslav literature, yet remarkably little of his writing has appeared in English. In a body of work that spans more than five dozen books, including novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and essays, Krleža steadfastly pursued a radical humanism and artistic integrity. Harbors Rich in Ships gives English-speaking readers an unprecedented opportunity to appreciate the astonishing breadth of Krleža's literary creations. Beautifully translated by Željko Cipriš, this collection of seven representative early texts introduces a new audience to three stories from Krleža's renowned antimilitarist book, The Croatian God Mars; an autobiographical sketch; a one-act play; a story from his collection of short stories; One Thousand and One Deaths; and his signature drama, The Glembays, a satirical account of the crime-ridden origins of one of Zageb's most aristocratic families. Born in 1893 Zagreb, then a city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Miroslav Krleža died in 1981 Zagreb, after it had become part of Croatia, a republic in socialist Yugoslavia. He was educated in military academies that served the Hapsburg monarchy, however, after fighting on the Eastern Front during the First World War, he was sickened by the War's lethal nationalism and became a fervent anti-militarist. Krleža joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1918, but his opposition to Stalin's artistic dictum of social realism, as well as his refusal to support Stalin's purges, led to his expulsion from the Party in 1939. He nevertheless helped found several literary and political journals, and became a driving force in Yugoslavia's literature. This collection will help readers of all interests and ages see just why Krleža is considered among the best of the literary moderns
This handbook describes the well-indented Croatian coast from the Harbour Master's Office Pula on the north to the Harbour Master's Office Dubrovnik on the south with its coves and small bays reaching far into the land and numerous islands, natural harbours and well-protected anchoring places, modern marinas and the possibility of staying in small, picturesque port towns. In each chapter there is an orientation map and a table listing the distances in order to help you plan your daily tour. There are also a lot of colour photographs of places and harbours, made mostly from the airplane and containing plenty of descriptions. In addition to the important navigation instructions, the handbook contains information on how to approach each individual cove or port, where to stay or shop, as well as which cultural and historical places one might visit.
Chorvat Miroslav Krleža, jehož tvorba byla už před druhou světovou válkou oceněna Nobelovou cenou za literaturu, evokuje v Baladách Petrici Kerempuha dějiny svého národa s intelektuální otevřeností a s básnickou naléhavostí, z které stydne a zároveň vře krev. - Doslov Dušan Karpatský.
Autor do románu vtělil nezvykle velké množství vlastních filozofických a společensko-politických úvah a představ, což je pro román tohoto typu spíše méně příznačné. Kromě zhroucení rakousko-uherské pseudomorálky, kterou meziválečná jugoslávská společnost v mnoha směrech chtěla převzít, vyčpění náboženských autorit a předpisů a bujení mnoha nových skupin a směrů s „jednoduchými recepty“ na řešení společenských problémů (které se v celé nahotě vyjevily po hospodářské krizi ve 30. letech 20. stol.) se vlastně neobjevoval žádný „návod“ na spravedlivý život. V předválečné Jugoslávii se žádný „prorok každodenní drobné a poctivé práce“ nezjevoval. Celé to samozřejmě v další rovině souvisí s hlubšími pochybnostmi, které Krleža o směřování komunistických stran pod taktovkou Stalina téměř v předvečer 2. světové války v té době měl. Že to nebyly liché pocity, se ukázalo nejen v Jugoslávii, ale v celé východní Evropě již za pár let. Proto lze Na pokraji rozumu vnímat i jako jistou Krležovu rezignaci na smysluplnost klasických „revolučních změn“, na nichž budování „lepších zítřků“ podle představ většiny komunistů stálo. Zároveň ale Krleža zůstával komunistou…
Třetí svazek souborného českého vydání literárního díla významného chorvatského spisovatele obsahuje kompletní cyklus próz a divadelní hru o vzestupu, rozkvětu a pádu fiktivního patricijského rodu Glembayů.
