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On the Edge of Reason (Paperback)
Miroslav Krleza; Translated by Zora Depolo; Introduction by Joshua Cohen
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Until the age of fifty-two, the protagonist of On the Edge of
Reason suffered a monotonous existence as a highly respected
lawyer. He owned a carriage and wore a top hat. He lived the life
of "an orderly good-for-nothing among a whole crowd of neat, gray
good-for-nothings." But, one evening, surrounded by ladies and
gentlemen at a party, he hears the Director-General tell a lively
anecdote of how he shot four men like dogs for trespassing on his
property. In response, our hero blurts out an honest thought. From
this moment, all hell breaks loose. Written in 1938, On the Edge of
Reason reveals the fundamental chasm between conformity and
individuality. As folly piles upon folly, hypocrisy upon hypocrisy,
reason itself begins to give way, and the edge between reality and
unreality disappears.
A bold new collection of the writings of Miroslav Krleza, in
English for the first time Miroslav Krleza was a giant of Yugoslav
literature, yet remarkably little of his writing has appeared in
English. In a body of work that spans more than five dozen books,
including novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and essays, Krleza
steadfastly pursued a radical humanism and artistic integrity.
Harbors Rich in Ships gives English-speaking readers an
unprecedented opportunity to appreciate the astonishing breadth of
Krleza's literary creations. Beautifully translated by Zeljko
Cipris, this collection of seven representative early texts
introduces a new audience to three stories from Krleza's renowned
antimilitarist book, The Croatian God Mars; an autobiographical
sketch; a one-act play; a story from his collection of short
stories; One Thousand and One Deaths; and his signature drama, The
Glembays, a satirical account of the crime-ridden origins of one of
Zageb's most aristocratic families. Born in 1893 Zagreb, then a
city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Miroslav Krleza died in 1981
Zagreb, after it had become part of Croatia, a republic in
socialist Yugoslavia. He was educated in military academies that
served the Hapsburg monarchy, however, after fighting on the
Eastern Front during the First World War, he was sickened by the
War's lethal nationalism and became a fervent anti-militarist.
Krleza joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1918, but his
opposition to Stalin's artistic dictum of social realism, as well
as his refusal to support Stalin's purges, led to his expulsion
from the Party in 1939. He nevertheless helped found several
literary and political journals, and became a driving force in
Yugoslavia's literature. This collection will help readers of all
interests and ages see just why Krleza is considered among the best
of the literary moderns.
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The Banquet in Blitva (Paperback)
Jasna Levinger-Goy; Miroslav Krleza; Translated by E.D. Goy
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Krleza's epic condemnation of hypocrisy and totalitarianism in pre
- World War II Europe; Miroslav Krleza is considered one of the
most important Central European authors of the twentieth century.
In his career as a poet, playwright, screenwriter, novelist,
essayist, journalist, and travel writer he wrote over fifty books.
He also suffered condemnation - as a leftist and a practitioner of
modernism - and saw his books proscribed in the late 1930s. The
first two books of the trilogy The Banquet in Blitva were written
in the thirties to comment on political, psychological, artistic,
and ethical issues. Such commentary had already earned him the
enmity of Yugoslavia's increasingly fascistic government. He wrote
and published the third book, together with the previous two, in
1962. Colonel Kristian Barutanski, lord of the mythical Baltic
nation of Blitva, has freed his country from foreign oppression and
now governs with an iron fist. He is opposed by Niels Nielsen, a
melancholy intellectual who hurls invective at the dictator and at
the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of society. Barutanski himself
despises the sycophants beneath him and recognizes in Nielsen a
genuine foe; yet Nielsen, haunted by his own lapses of conscience,
struggles to escape both the regime and the role of opposition
leader that is thrust upon him. In the end he flees to the
neighboring state of Blatvia - and finds his new country as corrupt
and as oppressive as the one he previously called home.
A bold new collection of the writings of Miroslav Krleza, in
English for the first time Miroslav Krleza was a giant of Yugoslav
literature, yet remarkably little of his writing has appeared in
English. In a body of work that spans more than five dozen books,
including novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and essays, Krleza
steadfastly pursued a radical humanism and artistic integrity.
Harbors Rich in Ships gives English-speaking readers an
unprecedented opportunity to appreciate the astonishing breadth of
Krleza's literary creations. Beautifully translated by Zeljko
Cipris, this collection of seven representative early texts
introduces a new audience to three stories from Krleza's renowned
antimilitarist book, The Croatian God Mars; an autobiographical
sketch; a one-act play; a story from his collection of short
stories; One Thousand and One Deaths; and his signature drama, The
Glembays, a satirical account of the crime-ridden origins of one of
Zageb's most aristocratic families. Born in 1893 Zagreb, then a
city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Miroslav Krleza died in 1981
Zagreb, after it had become part of Croatia, a republic in
socialist Yugoslavia. He was educated in military academies that
served the Hapsburg monarchy, however, after fighting on the
Eastern Front during the First World War, he was sickened by the
War's lethal nationalism and became a fervent anti-militarist.
Krleza joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1918, but his
opposition to Stalin's artistic dictum of social realism, as well
as his refusal to support Stalin's purges, led to his expulsion
from the Party in 1939. He nevertheless helped found several
literary and political journals, and became a driving force in
Yugoslavia's literature. This collection will help readers of all
interests and ages see just why Krleza is considered among the best
of the literary moderns.
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