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The Banquet in Blitva: A Novel in Three Books (Croatian: Banket u Blitvi: roman u tri knjige) is a political novel by Miroslav Krleža. The story takes place in the fictitious northeastern European nation of Blitva, which, after centuries of foreign rule and political instability, has become a newly independent state under a ...
A sprawling, panoramic satire centering around the operations of an invented Baltic republic, The Banquet in Blitva incorporates Joycean scope, gripping, urgent plot, hilarious dialogue, and a biting critique of the nationalism of shrapnel states.
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Colonel Kristian Barutanski, overlord of the mythical Baltic nation of Blitva, has freed his country from foreign oppression and now governs with an iron fis...
17 feb 2004 · Colonel Kristian Barutanski, overlord of the mythical Baltic nation of Blitva, has freed his country from foreign oppression and now governs with an iron fist. He is opposed by Niels Nielsen, a melancholy intellectual who hurls invective at the dictator and the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of society.
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- 1938
- Miroslav Krleža
- Miroslav Krleza
1 gen 2004 · Written before the Second World War but not widely available until 1962, Miroslav Krleza’s Banquet in Blitva combines the satire of a Jonathan Swift with the style and tone of the Austrian Recession and the extravagant technique of expressionism.
Colonel Kristian Barutanski, overlord of the mythical Baltic nation of Blitva, has freed his country from foreign oppression and now governs with an iron fist. He is opposed by Niels Nielsen, a melancholy intellectual who hurls invective at the dictator and the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of society.
- Miroslav Krleza
