Pavletić Vlatko: Prisjećanja o sebi i drugima

Vlatko Pavletić: Reminiscences about himself and others

Vlatko Pavletić is one of the rare living direct participants and omnipresent witnesses to the tumultuous events of Croatia's recent cultural and political history from the middle of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century. century. He has been active in the fight for the Croatian language, national identity and freedom of expression in the desired democratic environment since the founding of the legendary literary group "Circles", later as a signatory of the Declaration on the Name and Position of the Croatian Literary Language, and especially in Matica Hrvatska as one of the famous group of those arrested in February 1972. He participated in the creation of an independent Croatia from 1990, first as the Minister of Culture, Education, Sports and Technical Culture, then as an assemblyman for four years as President of the Croatian Parliament and for the same number of years as Vice-President of the Croatian Parliament. His Reminiscences about himself and others are texts credibly based on facts, and shaped literary as novelettes designed with a theme and punctuated at each end. They reveal the author's life and activity during more than half a century on the scene of culture and politics in Croatia, but also the author's nexus of experiences about society and people, about national and state lighthouses and signposts. Everything is so interwoven and interwoven with facts and thoughts, that after that, unobtrusively, the author's views and consistent views emerge from the background, reinforced by polemical statements. Therefore, it is clear that the book Reminiscences about myself and others brings a wealth of information and personal testimonies, but also so far unknown discoveries about some people and political events, very often intimately stripped to the very core of the author's privacy, which will cause a flood of reactions both among friends and those who are not.

About the book - REMINISCENCES OF SELF AND OTHERS

Istria from childhood and youth # Two of my hometowns in Zagreb # I loved school, and even more schoolgirls # My studies along with work and how I gained new knowledge at the Faculty of Philosophy, received a diploma and met the woman of my life - my future wife # From the circles of young writers gathered in the Croatian Writers' Club at the beginning of 1952 to the generational magazine "Krugovi" # In the army, don't protest, but "get your way, comrade" # Happy in sex # Election assembly where I was elected president of the Croatian Writers' Association # How am I, and why started a teaching career at the Theater Academy # Tripalo about the Declaration and the truth about it and about us # After the Declaration, today's advocates of democracy wanted to arrest me # About the days before my arrest and about the arrest itself, as well as a special acknowledgment that I was truly connected with others to coordinate activities, only the Yugoslav secret police never knew anything about it # Two more prison songs # How I agreed to the offer to be the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Technical Culture # How and why I refused an offer to become the director of HRT # How I found out that I would be elected president of Parliament # About fees, about untruths, about disrespecting facts, about Parliament and members of parliament # About suspicions about how I was tapped while I was temporarily in office as president of the Republic of Croatia # Do columnists also need fabrications and slander? # Eastern Croatia was conquered by robbers, not soldiers # Mr. Zmago, you will not win # The last dinner at Dr. Franjo Tuđman's # In the HDZ before the election defeat # HDZ before party elections # The truth about who nominated Sanader for HDZ president # How I ignored the invitation to a pointless debriefing and other shameful actions towards me # Diary about the last week of holding the office of interim president of the Republic of Croatia in 2000