This book contains older essays, such as “Atlas” and “The Soul of Europe,” as well as brand new – for example, the titular “The Archipelago of Yugoslavia,” alluding directly to “The Memories of Yugoslavia” – and very topical, such as “The Terrible Revenge,” containing reflections of Jančar from the first days of Russian invasion on Ukraine.
Drago Jančar takes the reader on a journey – not only among the islands of the Yugoslavian “archipelago,” but also to the Bosporus, on the fields of Flanders, and to Triest. It is also a journey in time – to Krakow of 1968, Warsaw of the 20th century 80s., Austrian Galicia of Joseph Roth, and the worlds of Ivo Andric and James Joyce.
Translated from Slovenian to Polish by Nikodem Szczygłowski.
It is the second volume of the Ister series under the editorship of Łukasz Galusek, Paulina Małochleb and Bartosz Sadulski.