Summary
Branko Polić: Paris in the heart of a student
At the center of this latest book of Branko Polić's autobiographical records are his years of study in Paris. They followed the forcibly interrupted schooling, internment and rescue in partisan units, described in the previous two volumes. Here, Polić tells the hitherto largely unknown story about the fate of the first post-war group of Yugoslav students in Paris and about his euphoric encounter with the big world of the Sorbonne, the world's most famous opera and theater houses and concert halls, about friendships with the French and students from all over the world who were made in liberated Paris after World War II. His friendships with some of them will bind him to this day. At the same time, the author presents a picture of the young people who spent those study years between the challenges of freedom and the political control that was trying to be exercised over them, about the doubts whether to stay or return. With his meticulousness, personal tone and outlook, openness and ironic distance, he is unique in Croatian literature.
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