Boris Pavelić je za portal Ideje.hr, ususret objavi posljednje knjige trilogije aforizama Karla Krausa, Noću, pisao o Krausu kao piscu čiji je „kristalni glas staromodne savjesti“ i danas neobično aktualan. Disputov glavni urednik Josip Pandurić tim je povodom razgovarao s Pavelićem: Ovoga ljeta Disput je zaokružio objavljivanje prijevoda Krausove aforističke trilogije. Sead Muhamedagić, sjajni prevoditelj…
Rhythm of Departures is a psychologically nuanced novel about full-blooded women whose lives were filled with tragedies. The novel follows transgenerational trauma in the case of four heroines whose life without connection, acceptance, joy and support flows through painful events in a remote province. In this novel everyone will find a piece of their own…
Rain in India, summer in Berlin contains 18 short stories that bear witness to the author’s ambition to approach the topic of travel in a very special, thematic motif and stylistic way. She does this by grafting her authorial self into a dozen of her fictional alter egos, into her restless companions of completely different…
The Palisander Guitar follows the story of five women who are connected by a magical guitar made of palisander wood. The destiny of each woman is unravelled as we follow the guitar from the seed to tree, crafting of the guitar and finally playing it on the stage. Although these women are temporally and spatially remote…
The novel In between follows the migrant experience of a young married couple from Zagreb in the English industrial city of Birmingham in the period from 2011 to 2022. Marko, an incomplete economics student, who leaves to pay off Swiss franc loan, at first works there as a construction worker, and Sandra soon joins him,…
Invulnerable place, Igor Ivko’s debut collection of stories, is an unusual phenomenon in the Croatian literary scene. It is not often that a younger author enters the story so authoritatively, balancing between motive realism and a deeply existentialist attitude toward the world.A young man burying his father, workers gone mad from the repetitiveness of office…
In the novel Beginners, the author contrasts the youthful idealism embodied in the famous student protests in the universities across Croatia in 2009. and the later life of these same young rebellious people, now emigrants and unskilled workers in Germany.The narrator follows two hypersensitive young people, a married couple in their thirties, with non-marketable degrees…
Jasmina Vojvodić je pisala kritiku o Molièreovoj romansiranoj biografiji iz pera Mihaila Bulgakova za portal Kritika HDP. “Molière ne rogobori toliko protiv vrha vlasti, krune, koliko se obrušava na kraljeve neposredne podanike, na „kabalu licemjera“, dvolične beskičmenjake koji se pokazuju većim rojalistima od samoga kralja. Slično je, primjećuje Lakšin, u slučaju Bulgakova i njegova sovjetskoga…
F.B. je za portal Booksa.hr preporučio novu Disputovu knjigu Stari majstori Thomasa Bernharda (prev. Sandra Brkljačić). “Ne kanimo vam popovati, povlačiti vas za rukav i preporučivati Stare majstore, nekako vjerujemo da će vas put već dovesti do ove knjige, jer što je netko tko sebe doživljava čitateljicom/čitateljem, dakle osobom koja nezanemariv dio svojeg dragocjenog vremena…
Riječ je o moralističkom djelu osebujnog književnog žanra, maksima, francuskog autora Jeana de La Bruyèrea, prvi put objavljenom u Parizu 1688. godine u kojem autor s psihološkog gledišta sistematizira ljudske karaktere. Autor svoje maksime, opise, refleksije, portrete temelji na promatranju i bilježenju konkretnih individualnih i društvenih fenomena, gradeći modele likova prema brojnim suvremenicima, pretežito pripadnicima francuske društvene…