Summary
Danijel Dragojević: Tortoise and Other Regions
Turtle and Other Regions Danijel Dragojević's allegory about the symbolism of a painted animal is a hymn to Dalmatian Mediterraneanism
The book Turtle and Other Regions (1961) was printed exactly 63 years ago in Split, when the author was only 27 years old: the same age as A. B. Šimić at the time of his death. It was published in the edition of the Split Subcommittee of Matica Hrvatska, from where a series of future classics started in the same format and on the same paper (let's just mention Slobodan Novak and his novel Izgubljeni zavičaj, then Petrasov Marović and his emblematic primers Asphaltirano nebo and Knjiga vode, or Gdje je sto Zvonimira Mrkonjića), as well as a whole host of authors from the wider Split area, who will receive well-deserved attention within the "library of contemporary writers": Olinko Delorko, Srećko Diana, Kruno Quien, Toma Podrug, Mate Ganza, Ivan Martinac... Already with her appearance, she caused an unprecedented interest and profession, but even then a very lively literary life that was very visible in society in general. That atmosphere, which was created more than half a century ago, has not faded nor has it stopped shining to this day. Moreover, Dragojević's volume itself will be a lantern and an azimuth that will tell the course of navigation to the many continuers of picking in the petra of poems in prose, such as Tonk Maroević and Zvonimir Mrkonjić, Igor Zidić and Dubravko Horvatić, Nikica Petrak and his peer Petrasov Marović.
*on the last pages of the book there are drawings
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