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The book is written as a lexicon with a brief overview of the life and work of numerous foreign, world writers.
Žmegač does not only talk about the visual arts, but about the "spirit" of the era that permeates literature: sensuality, the moment, subjectivity, decorativeness, eroticism, decadence, but also the crisis of identity in the fin-de-siècle atmosphere.
This is one of the first synthetic analyses of the so-called Croatian fantasy generation (or "Borgesians", "young prose" with elements of fantasy) that appeared in the late 1960s and during the 1970s.
A reader of foreign literature is intended as a handbook that shows the continuity of general literary development.
The first third of the book provides reviews of Russian literature (Chekhov, Ljeskov, Pushkin...). The second chapter deals with world literature (Balzac, Stendhal, Roland...), and the third chapter contains general articles.