Summary
Antun Šoljan: A short trip
Perhaps the most versatile Croatian writer of the second half of the 20th century, he appeared in literature in the early fifties with writers gathered around the magazine Krugovi. Preoccupied at that time with the sensitive issues of identity and individual freedom, which are also the central theme of his work, Antun Šoljan was necessarily suspicious of the regime, so he was accompanied by an uneasily defined label of political ineligibility, which also influenced the fate of the novel A Short Trip, which was perceived primarily as a political allegory directed against the system. It is, of course, still one of the possible readings, but the short trip that takes a motley group of young people on a journey through the magical landscape of Istria is much more than that in its layers: a path towards an elusive goal, each step of which is a search for meaning, described on perhaps the most beautiful pages of contemporary Croatian prose.
Biblos Newsletter
New titles, special copies and quiet recommendations from the antiquarian bookshop.