242 NOVA ISTRA Literary, Art and Cultural Journal Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kultur Rivista di letteratura, arte e cultura Pula, Croatia / Kroatien / Croazia, No. 3/2024 Summary In this issue we first remember our friend and colleague, the poet and the linguist, Rudolf Rudi Ujčić (1937 – 2024). New fiction section covers poems, short stories, aphorisms and a play-comedy, each of them written by contemporary Croatian authors from different generations, who have also supported various kinds of poetics. A few years ago, in the midst of the pandemic, the Pula Essay Days were centred on the issues like the writer, democracy, ideology, so the participants’ essays are presented here. The given topic has been analysed from a range of viewpoints being, above all, literary, non-fictional, critical... based on the examples from the national and international literatures, cultures, as well as the current global situation related to this. A separate essay-study deals with the experimental, concretised, visual... poetry by the poet from Rijeka, Ljubo Stefanović (1950 – 2016). In the section with translations there is a paragraph from the story Vprok / For Future Use by the Soviet and Russian writer Andrej Platonov (1899 – 1951), which is followed by the lyrics After Forever (1971); the famous British rock-group Black Sabbath included this song in their album Master of Reality. Both have been translated into Croatian. The traditional young writers’ programme for the Pula comprehensive school learners and university students from October 2023, known as At Marul’s, in its 12th edition made the target audience familiar with four poetry and fiction authors from Sisak. The selection of their writing is included here. The usual philosophy section contains a study in which the author analyses one of the leading 20th-century Croatian philosophers, the intellectual of the international esteem, named Vanja Sutlić (1925 – 1989). This contribution has been entitled Is Sutlić’s Historical Opinion the Soteriology with No God?, and signed by Žarko Paić, the contemporary Croatian philosopher who is also well-known worldwide. The topic, closely related to the native region, is presented from a historian’s perspective as it covers the identity of the Croatian clergyman in the 19th- and 20th-century Istria. The final section first brings reviews of the recent and latest pieces by the contemporary Croatian fiction writers, then critical remarks referring to a piece from the contemporary Czech literature, and a review of a book by a younger historian who writes about the Croatian War for Independence in which Croats defended themselves from the Serbian aggression (1991 – 1995). Translated by R. Šamo, Pula
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