Nova Istra No. 3-4/2009.

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Nova Istra No. 3-4/2009.

In this issue, ‘Contemporary Literature’ contains new poems and fiction pieces of writing by distinguished contemporary Croatian authors (J. Fiamengo, I. Lukšić) but also by some of them not so distinguished yet.

Nova Istra
Literary and Cultural Journal
Pula, Croatia, No. 3-4/2009

SUMMARY

The new translations into Croatian include some fragments from Johannisnacht, the novel written by Uwe Timm, who is one of the most prolific contemporary German writers; a few selected examples of the so-called lucid poetry by the Ukrainian writer Viktor Ženčenko, followed by the comments made by the famous Ukrainian writer, academician and intellectual, Ivan Dzjuba; and poems by the distinctive younger American poet William Gillespie, along with a shorter interview with the poet himself.

Apart from an essay on the poet-classic and visionary of the Croatian literature, S. S. Kranjčević (late 19th c.), we also publish an essay- overviews presenting the rich tradition and contemporary trends in the genre of detective stories within the Slavic literatures.

A special section is devoted to two distinguished Polish writers from the last century: Józef Czapski, who is presented with a selected fiction fragment from ‘In an Inhuman Land’ (martyrology of the Polish in the Soviet Union during WWII) and Adam Ważyk, who is presented with his critical text on Stanisław Witkiewicz.

‘Letters to Friends from Ljubljana’ is a series of philosophical letters-essays which discuss the historical-dialectical game of escapism and terrorism as one-sided civilization deviations from the true civil ethos and tries to provide one of the possible answers to the question about the causes of crisis in modern democratic states.

The homeland-related topic refers to the creation of homeland identity in works by the writer and economist, one of the most important intellectual and creative personalities in Istria, Croatia, in general, Mijo Mirković – Mate Balota.

The reviews, as usual, relate to new titles by the Croatian authors and recently translated works from other literatures and cultures.

Translation:
Renata Šamo, Pula