Marinković Ranko: Kiklop

Name: Kiklop
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Author: Marinković Ranko

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Author: Marinković Ranko
Publisher: Šareni dućan
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 70145

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Kiklop

Marinković Ranko

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Ranko Marinković: Kiklop

As soon as Kiklop, Ranko Marinković's first novel, was published, it was clear that it was a first-class work that would greatly mark the recent history of Croatian literature. And it was published in 1965, in the middle of a politically and culturally important decade, when the "old aces" had mostly already written their most important works, and the new harbingers of domestic prose expansion in the seventies were just beginning to emerge. The distinguished bard stepped into that intermediate space with the novel Kyklops, which with its bursting intellectual fervor will correspond equally with new times as well as with tradition, and at the same time will enchant with modernity and multi-layeredness, allusion, symbolism, allegory... In addition to calling and "calling out" the entire spectrum of European literary and artistic tradition, the attractiveness and receptivity of the novel are guaranteed by vivid, intriguingly presented characters: Maestro, ATMA, Ugo, Krele, don Kuzma, Viviana, and most of all Melkior Tresić, an almost eradicated type of intellectual who tries to preserve his sanity and his head between humiliating militarization and the appearance of civilian life and his own lucidity and complete banality. Because "life has chosen intelligence for its games, it does not make history with idiots", and the difficult and traumatizing "hora has come", pre-apocalyptic uncertainty and anxiety are omnipresent, a cruel general war is roaring, and the mythological monster Cyclops in the title is a metaphor for this coming bestial evil.

A poll for the selection of the best Croatian novels, conducted among cultural workers in 2010, showed that for them Forty years, it was Kiklop the best, and confirmed that connoisseurs and more demanding readers highly appreciate Marinković's masterpiece. This is not unexpected because this "Zagreb version of Joyce's Ulysses" with "the most spectacular suicide in the history of Croatia and several other surrounding literatures" is a wonderful novel, awarded with the highest literary awards, compulsory school and lifelong reading. If you read it "as a must", give yourself the opportunity for this edition to open the door to new insights and knowledge, and if you are yet to read it for the first time, get ready to enter the world of great literature of global reach!

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