Summary
Irfan Horozović: Talhe ili Šedrvanski vrt
"A very complex and structured story. Aesthetically very suggestive work.
Storyteller, novelist, dramatist, poet, in whom the contemporary literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina has the literary appearance of a European format. Horozović combines the experience of the world as a secret, as a Baudelaire forest of symbols, with refined literary culture and erudition. Horozović's entry into literature was is great. The Banja Luka of his childhood and youth was a small Florence, with a strong artistic aura given to the city by the Group of Four (Simić, Štaljo, Misirlić). While studying in Zagreb, Horozović shared the spirit of a great generation, which definitely broke free from mimetic dictation. His first book, Talha ili šedrvanski vrt (Zagreb, 1972), became a literary event. He published over thirty books, among them the collections of stories Salon of Deaf Seamstresses (1979), Map of Time (1994), Bosanski Palimpsest (1995), novels Vauvan (1986), Rea (1987), Journeyman (1988), Similar Man (1995), Unknown Passerby in Berlin (1998), Filmophile (2000), Imotski kadija (2000), William Shakespeare in Dar es Salaam (2002), Dogs of the Wind (2003), collections of poems Zvečajsko blago (1969), The Book of the Dead Poet (1997), Testament of Youth (1980), The End of Time (2001), the plays Room (1970), Šeremet (1985), Three Sabahudin (2001). Horozović's works have been translated into many languages, a the short story Bosanski bik for more than twenty."
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