A Brief Excursion and Other Stories

A Brief Excursion and Other Stories PDF Author: Antun Šoljan
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Book Description
The novel A Brief Excursion anchors this collection of fiction by one of the most significant postwar Croatian writers. This novel and six stories, including many from Soljan's first book, Traitors, reveal a sensibility both comic and poignant, devoted to questions of identity and solidarity, of how the one and the many conflict and intermingle-issues that were at the center of both political and literary life for Soljan. Whether fixing up a summerhouse on the Istrian coast or confronting prejudice and the past in a tourist town, Soljan's characters are stirred to action by an undefined longing, only to find the stark landscape of self-knowledge and loss.