Tribuson Goran: Povijest pornografije

Goran Tribuson: The History of Pornography

At the age of forty, Goran Tribuson published a book that will permanently conquer the readership. The novel "History of Pornography" and the year 1988 will be on every list of anthology readings and years important for contemporary Croatian prose. The narrator Stanislav Ivančić is old enough to have the need to reconstruct events from the joint history of Klapa, wise enough to distance himself from the fervor of the socialist era with lukewarmness, and disillusioned enough not to look for a way out in pop culture content and language. literature.
 
Here, as always, Tribuson is brilliant in the detail and in guiding the story, witty in his diagnoses and suggestive in his evaluations. The reader reads his own commentary in the sentences of his narrator. All these once different people, successful or unsuccessful, respected or despised, have done with their lives mostly the exact opposite of what they intended to do. 

If until the appearance of "History of Pornography" someone doubted whether Tribuson was a widely loved and beloved writer, after that year in 1988, and it didn't last long, there was no more room for doubts. The audience's love is ensured by sites where things are undressed.    

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Goran Tribuson is one of the most important representatives of the so-called genre prose in Croatia, and what is even more important, he is one of the best and most widely read Croatian prose writers. He began his literary career in the early seventies with the Borges generation, writing the so-called fantastic literature, but his later works were marked by a turn towards realistic prose, with a distinct social background and emphatically present elements of rock culture. Skillfully using the elements of the crime novel, he writes the best pages of contemporary Croatian prose after Antun Šoljan.

He published his first book of short stories, "Conspiracy of Cartographers", in 1972, followed by a series of novelistic collections ("Death in Prague", "Paradise for Dogs", "Sleeping Cars", "Classics on the Screen", "The Star of the Cabaret"), as well as selected stories "The Eighth Eyepiece". 

He also wrote a number of novels published in several editions ("Snow in Heidelberg", "Do you hear us Frido Stern", "Russian Roulette", "Slow Surrender", "Foreign Legion", "Peek", "Reciprocal Encounter", "Made in U.S.A.", "History of Pornography", "Grey Zone", "Sunken Cemetery", "Deep Side of the Bay", "Sanatorium", "Night Shift", "Furious". foxes", "God forbid greater evil", "Bitter Chocolate", etc.), as well as the autobiographical trilogy - "Early Days", "Grass and Weeds" and "Still Life". 

Tribuson's prose work, apart from its extensiveness, is also distinguished by its diversity of genres, thematic diversity and poetic changes. What remains unchanging as a link to this varied oeuvre is the removal of all ideologies, storytelling skill, high level of craftsmanship and constant awareness of the needs of the reader as the ultimate "user" of literature. He also writes television and film scripts. He teaches film script at the Academy of Dramatic Arts.