On January 12, a review of Mirko Galić's book The Individual in the Crowd was published on the website of Večernji l...
Last night, the book The Individual in the Crowd. Political Considerations by Mirko Galić was presented in the packed B...
On January 11, the first program of Croatian Radio aired the show In a Room with a View featuring Dražen Lalić as a gu...
New year – new titles! The first one we bring you is an award-winning book with an intriguing title: The Afterlife of Da...
As the fate and future of literature are once again being questioned, Antoine Compagnon, with his unmistakable spirit, offers a provocative and insightful essay: Literature Pays Off. Literature, the author argues, sometimes does “pay off” for writers – like Baudelaire, who lived in poverty yet attained lasting wealth through posthumous fame. But above all, it pays off for readers: it is a tribute to beauty and tranquility, to that rare time of spiritual leisure – otium – opposed to the restless, utility-driven life of negotium. As Proust shows, educated doctors, soldiers, and all who read are always better at what they do. And today, in a world of fake news and distorted stories, the true narrative remains our strongest weapon. Without it...
Ahead of the release of Literature Pays Off!, Antoine Compagnon's fifth title published by TIM press, the book of January is Life Behind You.
In his lecture at the Collège de France, the author of Life Behind You Antoine Compagnon indulged in a final reflection on literature, art and music through the words ending, end, purpose. Literature is inextricably linked to death, grief and melancholy, but what are the "purposes of literature"? Does this mean that the writer must stop his creative activity or is it a matter of creative twilight? Is an artist more creative in youth or in maturity? Is old age a decline or an apotheosis?
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