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A classic work of Croatian literary historiography. The edition covers the periods from oral tradition to modernism, emphasizing the interference of oral and written literature, sociological context, aesthetic norms, and European connections.
This Introduction to Literature aims to enable every educated lover of beautiful literature to approach a book or work with the most confident judgment possible and to more consciously understand certain artistic values that strongly impress them in it.
The book provides a thorough chronicle and analysis of centuries-old theatrical contacts between two cities – Osijek and Pécs – which historically shared the cultural space of the Pannonian Plain, especially during the period of the Habsburg Monarchy.
The title of the book In the Fire of the Worlds is a paraphrase of a sentence from Andrić's story "The Woman on the Stone" because, according to the author of this book, it best illustrates Andrić's political life: "To burn up without a trace, to lose one
The studies and essays collected in this book are undoubtedly the author's seminal work, the sum of his previous research, but also a major work of contemporary Croatian literary criticism.
A future civilization that would not refer to literature and the language of the press would be a different human species that does not touch our understanding of the beautiful and the true.