A Brief Excursion and Other Stories
Author | : Antun Šoljan |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1999 |
ISBN-10 | : 0810116359 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780810116351 |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.