Summary
Lana Derkač: Breakfast for Moths In her first novel "Breakfast for Moths" Lana Derkač, one of the most outstanding contemporary Croatian poets, thematizes the everyday life of a heroine who is at the same time a passive observer, a chronicler of local and world events, and an active analyst, who resists the given facts by interpreting them poetically. The heroine-narrator is caught in a network of family relationships and everyday life that she feels is alien and from whose necessity she tries to escape. Relationship to mother and grandmother, selfishness, egoism and ignorance as the ethos of today's man, piranhas in the Polish Vistula River, food in a pensioner's home, drama due to the collapse of Kupska Street, are some of the hubs around which this layered textual fabric is woven. In the novel, as bassso continuo that follows the narrative polyphony, the question resounds: can one escape old age, death, violence, depression, injustice? Despite the fact that we are locked in the machine of the world and imprisoned in the linearity of movement, the author shows us how even in completely banal things, if one diligently and persistently learns to look at them, one can find light, softness, form, and they immediately become a refuge for the reader as well. Lana Derkač was born on June 22, 1969 in Požega. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He writes poetry, prose, plays and essays. Nagrađivana (pjesnička nagrade „Zdravko Pucak“, „Duhovno Hrašće“ itd.). It has been included in anthologies, panoramas and anthologies in the country and abroad. She has participated in several international poetry festivals and literary events such as the International Poetry Festival (Croatia), Struga Poetry Nights (Macedonia), Curtea de Arges Poetry Nights (Romania), Kuala Lumpur World Poetry Reading (Malaysia)... Her texts have been translated into English, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Malayalam, Orish, Malay and Arabic. (KD2)
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