LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
5 Poetry of IVAN SLAMNIG
8 Poetry of BORBEN VLADOVIĆ
11 Poetry of DUNJA DETONI-DUJMIĆ
15 Poetry of STJEPAN ŠEŠELJ
18 Poetry of ADMIRAL MAHIĆ
23 Prose of STJEPAN ČUIĆ
30 Prose of DAŠA DRNDIĆ
36 Prose of IGOR ŠTIKS
42 MARIN DRŽIć: Venera i Adonis
THE ISSUE’S FOCUS: Zvonimir Balog
55 A Note on the Author
57 R. Javor: THE LITERARY WORK OF ZVONIMIRBALOG
68 Z. Balog: AUSGEWÄHLTE GEDICHTE
71 Z. Balog: POEMS AND STORIES FOR CHILDREN
74 Z. Balog: ANTES DE LA VIDA (un fragmento de la novela)
78 L. Žigo: A STORY THAT DOES NOT IMMERSE IN SERIOUS THOUGHT
80 Bibliography, Literary Awards
LITERARY LIFE
CWA
84 THE CHRONICLE OF THE CROATIAN WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION
93 D. Gašparović: CONTEMPORARY MASOCHISTIC SEPARATION OF LITERATURE AND THEATRE (The 30th Zagreb Literary Talks)
EVENTS & GATHERINGS
96 L. Mihaljević: A GREAT FAIR OF OLD WEAKNESSES (The 32nd Interliber Book Fair)
99 A. Kapraljević: AN INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION OF THE COLLECTIVE (The Scientific Convention on Imagology)
IN MEMORIAM
101 D. Težak: NADA IVELJIć (1931—2009)
ANNIVERSARIES
103 L. Šeput: DEVOTEDNESS TO THE MIRACLE OF LANGUAGE (The 70th Birthday of Ante Stamać)
105 N. Štriga: A POET OF HUMANITY (The 80th Birthday of Milivoj Slaviček)
CRITIQUES
P o e t r y
106 D. Šalat: LIGHT INTERPRETS THE MEDITERRANEAN (Jakša Fiamengo: Luminous Objects)
108 D. Šalat: THE VERBALISATION OF THE NONVERBAL (Gojko Sušac: A Rime Neklace)
109 D. Šalat: A CASTLE OF WORDS (Ljerka Car Matutinović: A Lap Full of Apples)
111 Đ. Vidmarović: HIGH ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE POETRY OF CHRISTIAN INSPIRATION (Tomislav Marijan Bilosnić: Prayers)
113 D. Žilić: THE OPENING OF THE LYRICAL HEROINE (Ana Brnardić: The Origin of Birds)
P r o s e
115 S. Primorac: A POWERFUL ANTI-WAR NOVEL (Robert Međurečan: I Am Selling Decorations, the Original Owner)
117 S. Primorac: ON ZAGREB AT THE TIME OF THE DISINTEGRATION OF YUGOSLAVIA (Ratko Cvetnić: Light Sleep)
118 S. Primorac: THEMES THAT PROVOKE CONSCIOUSNESS (Daša Drndić: April in Berlin)
120 B. Alajbegović: THE VOICES OF BYGONE TIMES (DBernardin Škunca: A Peacemaker in Bologna)
T h e a t r o l o g y
122 Ž. Ciglar: AN AUTHOR WHO USES HER PEN LIKE A LETHAL WEAPON, A STRAIGHTFORWARD THEATROLOGIST (Sanja Nikčević: What Is Croatian Drama to Us Today?)
E s s a y s
123 Ž. Lovrenčić: UNCOMPROMISING POLEMICISM (Davor Velnić: It Is Not Intentional)
C o l l e c t e d W o r k s
125 B. PetraË: AN INDIVIDUAL IN THE WRINGER OF THE TOTALITARIAN POWER (Works of Stjepan Čuić)
T h e o r y o f L i t e r a t u r e
126 S. Primorac: AN AUTHENTIC REPRESENTATIVE OF ACADEMIC CRITICISM (Vinko Brešić: Criticism)
H i s t o r y o f L i t e r a t u r e
128 D. Gabrić-Bagarić: AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE GLAFOLITIC SCRIPT (Anica Nazor: I Knowing the Letter Speak…)
130 N. Talan: THE HISPANIC-AMERICAN CULTURALHISTORICAL TRAVELLING TRIFLES OF MIRJANA POLIĆ BOBIĆ (Mirjana Polić Bobić: The Birth of the Hispanic-American World)
132 B. Kalogjera: THE CROATIAN DIASPORA FROM NEW ZEALAND TO CHILE (Željka Lovrenčić: The Marks of Croat Who Have Emigrated /In Literature and Outside It /)
JOURNALS
135 V. Begić: A DOUBLE ISSUE DEDICATED TO ZVANE ČRNJA (The Journal Nova Istra)
135 V. Begić: CERAMICS AND “LET 3 OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST” (The Journal Novi Kamov)
LITERARY ISTRIA
Column by Vanesa Begić
137 VARIED WORKS OF GREAT QUALITY
THE WORLD OF CRITICISM
Column by Lada Žigo
140 THE QUALITY OF DETECTIVE STORIES HAS INCREASED, BUT THE INTEREST IN THEM HAS DECREASED
INTERIEW
143 THE ZAGREB SCHOOL OF SLAVIC STUDIES — DURING THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OF ITS EXISTENCE MORE THAN TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ATTENDEES FROM SOME FIFTY COUNTRIES (Interview with Krešimir Mićanović)
147 DIVERSE SPICES OF LOVE (Interview with Ljerka Car Matutinović)
THE WORLD OF LITERATURE
151 Ana Kapraljević: THE PENITENCE OF (NON)WORK (Pascal Bruckner: The Tyranny of Penitence)
153 Ž. Lovrenčić: CHILEAN PROSE WRITER DIEGO MUNOZ VALENZUELA IN ZAGREB
154 “ZAGREB ES UNA CIUDAD ARMÓNICA, PLACIDA Y AMABLE (Entrevista con Diego Munoz Valenzuela)
CROATIAN AUTHORS AND LITERATURE ABROAD & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
NEW BOOK RELEASES – Anthologies
160 S. Begović: A FIRMLY BUILT ANTHOLOGY (Ervin Jahić: Into Heaven and into Nothingness)
161 CROATIAN WRITERS ABROAD — A CHRONICLE
INTERIEW
165 G. Borić: KROATISTIK IN DEUTSCHLAND — NOCH NICHT UNPROBLEMATISCH (Interview with Elisabeth von Erdmann)
CROATIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE WORLD
169 G. Borić: GERMAN VIEWS OF CROATS
175 B. Perić: YEARNING FOR A MORE COMPLETE EXISTENCE (Jagoda Marinić: A Nameless Woman)
178 I. Golub: THE BOOK SERIES “BIBLIA SLAVICA” CEREMONIOUSLY CLOSED
INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIRS
180 G. Borić: A SOMEWHAT MORE MODEST PRESENTATION OF CROATIA AT THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR
HISTORY OF LITERATURE
183 F. Lovrić: THE MOVEMENT OF MODERNISM BORDERS — THE PARADIGM OF EQUALLITY AND TEMPORAL DISTANCE
188 A. Kapraljević: WOMEN IN THE CROATIAN LITERATURE OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY — ZDENKA MARKOVIĆ AND MARA ŠVEL-GAMIRŠEK
Most/The Bridge 3-4 / 2009
