Bierce Ambrose: Đavolji rječnik

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Author: Bierce Ambrose
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Đavolji rječnik

Bierce Ambrose

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Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary

When asked what nonsense is, probably each of us could point to several examples every day and offer several answers, and according to Ambrose Bierce's definition, it is "an objection made against this excellent dictionary"! Okay, so who is Ambrose Bierce, you might be wondering? Well, this is a man who "disappeared without a trace" a long time ago, and it seems that even today, rightly, for more than a hundred years, he has been carrying the banner of America's greatest literary cynic and misanthrope! He let this carefully cultivated commitment to life flourish most precisely in the Devil's Dictionary, a book with which he tried to prove that vice, crime, evil and stupidity are not exceptions but constant and the rule. And, instead of just laughing sweetly at it today, the mighty years that have passed and those to come, seem to increasingly confirm how bitterly right he was...
This all-time catalog of moral shortcomings of human beings is a kind of spiritual testament of A. Bierce, the vocabulary of his life balance and the crown of a carefully and meticulously built image that will correspond with the work, because life ("that greatest misfortune that happens to every man"), unfortunately, did not surprise him: one of his sons killed, the other died of alcohol, and his wife left him. At the age of 71, in 1913, he went to Mexico ("death in Mexico is a true euthanasia compared to life in the United States") to allegedly die fighting in Pancho Villa's troops...
Bierce lost track, but he left us his little masterpiece of cynicism, which finally appears in a Croatian translation! To the reader who may have thought "it was about time it was published" and other curious people, we offer an additional interesting edition, illustrated with cartoons from the satirical weekly Wasp where these wicked thoughts have been serialized since 1881! In short: a real treat for connoisseurs and experienced optimists!

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