After the summer break, we’re back at Crni mačak on September 16 at 6 PM, with another one of our authors, for an ev...
On Sunday, August 30, at the age of 78, distinguished Croatian writer, playwright, novelist and essayist Slobodan...
A review of Predrag Finci’s Journeys of the Soul, written by Jaroslav Pecnik, has been published by Novi magazin. The r...
One of our titles has made it onto the list of the 30 best-selling nonfiction books for the period from April to June...
What can Don Quixote still tell us today, more than four centuries after it first saw the light of day? In One Summer with Don Quixote, William Marx embarks on a personal and literary journey through one of the greatest works of world literature, revealing why Cervantes’ hero remains so strikingly relevant. If we can all recognize something of ourselves in Don Quixote, it is because this novel confronts one of humanity’s most fundamental questions: how are we to live in a world that seems devoid of meaning? The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance embodies the individual who, despite repeated collisions with reality, chooses to believe in the possibility of a different world—a world where honour, justice, and hope still endure. Witty, insi...
In expectation of the next edition of the House of Good Books: Trump and the Philosophers by the Norwegian philosopher Lars Fr. H. Svendsen, for the book of the month we chose an interesting study by the same author.
Most people have no doubt that a dog is happy when it waves its tail or that a cat is happy when it spins around. But how do the animals we are surrounded with really think? Can we really understand them? Lars Fr. H. Svendsen has written a book on understanding animals with examples and discussions from the history of philosophy - from the French philosopher, who feels ashamed when he stands naked in the bathroom and the cat looks at him, to philosophical questions such as whether animals have morals and can be lonely... Do we understand animals? This is an instructive, entertaining and witty book about animals and whether it makes sense to attribute human characteristics to them. During September, learn to understand animals with a 20% discount for orders via webshop.
