A brief excursion and other stories
By: Antun Šoljan ; translated from the Croatian and with a foreword by Ellen Elias-Bursać.
Contributors: Elias-Bursać, Ellen.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Šoljan, Antun -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "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, at the end of their efforts, the stark landscape of self-knowledge and loss."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 252).