Novel
Povijest pornografije
Not translated into English
Goran Tribuson · 1988
Synopsis
In 1988, a funeral brings together, in their small town about a hundred kilometres from Zagreb, the members of a former band of friends. The narrator, Stanislav Ivančić, born in 1948 like them, then retells the whole story from his parents' love affair: childhood in the fifties, school, girls, studies, work, family. Between his chapters are interspersed the pages of a three-hundred-sheet manuscript written by one of them, Miki Grabar: a history of pornography.
Context
The novel was published in Zagreb in 1988, by Znanje. It belongs to its author's autobiographical and generational vein, drawing on his native town of Bjelovar and the popular culture of the seventies, far from the fantastic tales of his early work. The narrative starts in 1988, goes back to 1948 and returns to its starting point, and the title is that of the manuscript that the narrator reads and comments on. It was reissued in 1995 and in 2004.
Who it is for
A generational novel, full of references to socialist Yugoslavia, into which pages of essay on pornography are inserted. No French translation.
Prizes and reception
The novel by which the author won over the public for good, and which is counted among the books that matter in contemporary Croatian prose.
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