by Antun Soljan
translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Northwestern University Press, 2000
Paper: 978-0-8101-1635-1
Library of Congress Classification PG1619.29.O4A24 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.82354

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The novel 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 the stark landscape of self-knowledge and loss.