Nova Istra No. 1-2/2014.

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Nova Istra No. 1-2/2014.

Unfortunately, the current volume first brings the official objection to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia because of its frequent refusal to grant our journal, Nova Istra.

Nova Istra
Literary and Cultural Journal
Pula, Croatia, No. 1-2/2014

Summary

Unfortunately, the current volume first brings the official objection to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia because of its frequent refusal to grant our journal, Nova Istra. According to evaluations of the cultural public, authors and reviewers, this is one of the best periodical publications on literary and cultural issues in the country. The editor-in-chief believes that the reason does not lie in its quality, but in criteria far from literature and culture. Since 2012, the Ministry has refused to sponsor the journal and its publisher with 2/3 of the funds, providing no explanation. At the same time, the most responsible people in the Ministry have largely supported titles and individuals who are close to them, without paying any attention to the real and potential conflicts of interest. Quite non-European behaviour!

The section on contemporary literature presents, as it is usual, contributions characteristic for different genres and signed by writers who belong to different generations and poetics, but some new names on the literary scene are also included.

The literary opus by Viktor Vida (1913 – 1960), a distinguished writer and Croatian refugee in Italy and Argentina with a tragic destiny – born in Boka Kotorska (today a part of Montenegro) – was the central topic of the 18th Antun Šoljan (another great Croatian writer in 20th century) Days in the city of Rovinj. This issue contains contributions by literary scholars, historians and reviewers who have comprehensively analysed Vida’s entire opus for the first time – all the genres in which he showed his great talent, his public engagement and his destiny.

New translations cover three authors, introduced to the Croatian readership for the first time. They belong to the Swiss (French-speaking), Hungarian and Chilean literature.

The current volume also includes new studies and essays on a variety of topics, as follows: neuralgic issues of the Croatian reality and ways in which they are interpreted by writers/in literature; destiny of women camp inmates from Vukovar who were raped in 1991-1992 (the Croatian War of Independence), during the Serbian occupation and destruction of this Middle European city on the Danube River in Croatia; contemporary Chilean poetry by writers of the Croatian origin; novel by the Nobel Prize Winner Orhan Pamuk – The White Castle, etc.

On the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, native region contributions reveal, among other things, the human solidarity in the most difficult circumstances – how the Istrian children were saved from famine and massive death by their compatriots in the north of Croatia.

The reviews section does not only include recent literary editions, but it also presents books in the fields of history, film, visual arts, etc.

Translation:
Renata Šamo, Pula

Author and collaborators:

Authors

Dubravko Jelačić Bužimski, Zagreb

Božica Zoko, Gradišće

Tomislav Domović, Karlovac

Milko Valent, Velika Gorica

Adam Rajzl, Đakovo

Lora Tomas, Zagreb/Bangalore

Marko Gregur, Koprivnica

Dr. sc. Boris Domagoj Biletić, Rovinj

Dr. sc. Ljubica Josić, Zagreb

Dr. sc. Slaven Jurić, Zagreb

Martina Kokolari, Zagreb

Dr. sc. Željka Lovrenčić, Zagreb

Dr. sc. Irvin Lukežić, Rijeka

Dr. sc. Daniel Mikulaco, Pula

Dr. sc. Antun Pavešković, Zagreb

Mr. sc. Božidar Petrač, Zagreb

Davor Šalat, Zagreb

Dr. sc. Ante Stamać, Zagreb

Dr. sc. Milorad Stojević, Rijeka

Bosiljka Brlečić, Zagreb

Angéla Pataki, Labin

Dr. sc. Ivan Bošković, Split

Dr. sc. Sanja Knežević, Zadar

Dr. sc. Andrés Morales Milohnić, Santiago de Chile

Tamara Bakran, Zagreb

Mr. sc. Vladimir Vojinović, Podgorica

Đuro Vidmarović, Zagreb

Dr. sc. Ivan Pederin, Split

Nevenka Nekić, Zagreb

Stjepan Čuić, Zagreb

Božidar Alajbegović, Rijeka

Mr. sc. Vanesa Begić, Pula

Darija Žilić, Zagreb

Miodrag Kalčić, Pula

Dr. sc. Slaven Bertoša, Pula

Dr. Renata Šamo, Pula

Contents of the Journal:

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

DUBRAVKO JELAČIĆ BUŽIMSKI
Ulderiko Donadini's False Story and Other Falsifications

BOŽICA ZOKO
My Skin Covered in Writing

TOMISLAV DOMOVIĆ
Imperatives

MILKO VALENT
Magic Hygienic Little Squares

ADAM RAJZL
Sprites

LORA TOMAS
The Fragmented Moon

MARKO GREGUR
The Emptiness

18th ŠOLJAN DAYS IN ROVINJ - Literary Work by VIKTOR VIDA (1913-1960)

BORIS DOMAGOJ BILETIĆ
Viktor Vida's Autobiographical Notes

LJUBICA JOSIĆ
Viktor Vida in Hrvatska revija (The Croatian Review)

SLAVEN JURIĆ
The Bound and Free Verse in Viktor Vida's Poetry

MARTINA KOKOLARI
The Italian Topics in Vida's Opus

ŽELJKA LOVRENČIĆ
Viktor Vida – the Poet, Prosaist, Refugee

IRVIN LUKEŽIĆ
The Interpretation of Viktor Vida's Poem Groblje pokraj mora (The Graveyard by the Sea)

DANIEL MIKULACO
On Viktor Vida's Fictional Prose Tajno poslanje (The Secret Mission)

ANTUN PAVEŠKOVIĆ
Viktor Vida's Mediterraneanism

BOŽIDAR PETRAČ
The Background of Vida's Text/Polemic Rasulo Doriana Vlaja (The Disintegration of Dorian the Vlach)

DAVOR ŠALAT
Late Viktor Vida's Poetry in the Light of Hugo Friedrich's Book 'The Structure of Modern Poetry'

ANTE STAMAĆ
Vida's Picture of Karl Jaspers

MILORAD STOJEVIĆ
Reviews and Essays by Viktor Vida

NEW TRANSLATIONS

NICOLAS BOUVIER
Le hibou et la baleine (The Owl and the Whale) (transl. by B. Brlečić)

THEODORO ELSSACA
Ten Poems (transl. by Ž. Lovrenčić)

TIBOR WEINER SENNYEY
Mahruh (Mahruh's Waking) (transl. by A. Pataki)

STUDIES, ESSAYS, NOTES

IVAN BOŠKOVIĆ
Neuralgic Issues of the Croatian Reality (Ratko Cvetnić: Povijest instituta /The History of the Institute/)

SANJA KNEŽEVIĆ
The Suffering and Resurrection of the Raped Women Camp Inmates from Vukovar 1991-1992

ANDRÉS MORALES MILOHNIĆ
The Chilean Poetry of the Croatian Origin (transl. by Ž. Lovrenčić)

TAMARA BAKRAN
The Motif of the Double in Pamuk's Novel Beyaz Kale (The White Castle)

BOŽIDAR PETRAČ
Nizeteo's Humanistic Contributions

VLADIMIR VOJINOVIĆ
Waiting for the Ultimate Freedom: Jovan Nikolaidis

NATIVE REGION CONTRIBUTIONS

ĐURO VIDMAROVIĆ
Saving the Children of the Istrian Croats in Moslavina during the First World War

IVAN PEDERIN
The Method and Cultural Content of Biografia... (The Biography...) by Pietro Stanković

NEVENKA NEKIĆ
Istria in the Memory of a Teacher: Ana Došen

REVIEWS

STJEPAN ČUIĆ
"Throwing Light upon the Communist Deceit"
(Ivan Grljušić: Komunističke priče / The Communist Stories)

BOŽIDAR ALAJBEGOVIĆ
"The Novel Marked by Pop-Culture"
(Irena Lukšić: Očajnički sluteći Cohena / Desperately Sensing Cohen)

BOŽIDAR ALAJBEGOVIĆ
"Politics and Family Secrets"
(Ratko Cvetnić: Povijest institute / The History of the Institute)

VANESA BEGIĆ
"The Seaside Stories"
(Milan Osmak: Ovce na južnom vjetru / Sheep in the Southern Wind)

DARIJA ŽILIĆ
"The Book of Good Stories but Average Notes"
(Enver Krivac: Ništa za pisati kući o / Nothing to Write Home about...)

DARIJA ŽILIĆ
"A Praise to the Common Life"
(Jana Prević Finderle: Ti još pričaš o nogometu / You're Still Talking about Football)

MIODRAG KALČIĆ
"A Thematically Failed Collection of Papers, Not Needed to the Pula Film City
(N. Gilić – Z. Vidačković /ed./: 60 godina Festivala igranog filma
u Puli i hrvatski film:: zbornik radova / 60 Years of the Pula Film Festival and Croatian Film: Collection of Papers)

SLAVEN BERTOŠA
"The Jubilee Collection of Papers"
(Buzetski zbornik", sv. 40. / The Buzet Collection of Papers, Vol. 40)

NEVENKA NEKIĆ
"The Well of Life by Ivan Meštrović in Zagreb"
(Miljenko Galić – Josip Botteri Dini: Meštrovićev zdenac – u spomen artifeksa / Meštrović's Well – in Memory of Artifeks)