Katastrofe

Less a story than a map: a fragmentary book of micro-notes moving between essay, diary and literary puzzle that charts catastrophes great and small. The wars of the 1990s and the Holocaust sit beside climate change, traffic, the price of carrots, private ruin and the word catastrophe as it is heard on the street and on television. Writers and thinkers from Andrić, Krleža and Joyce to Celan, Bachmann and Arendt share its pages with animals of field and forest, with the politicians and tycoons of transition Croatia, and with the family, the hardest question of all.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

199 pages in the original

First published

2024 by Meandarmedia

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789533343594 (original)