Antun Šoljan was a Croatia

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n writer in a period of Cold War

Cold War

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 who appeared as a part of literal magazine Krugovi (Circles, from 1952 onwards).

He wrote four novels: Izdajice (1961,Traitors), Kratki izlet (1965, A Brief Excursion), Luka (1976, The Harbour) and Drugi ljudi na mjesecu (1978, The Second Men on The Moon), as well as short stories, theatre and radio plays and poems. He wrote novels under the influence of existentialism

Existentialism

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, about the alienation of modern man. He is one of the most prominent Croatian authors of what was dubbed the "jeans prose" , an off-beat prose genre modeled on the J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger

Jerome David Salinger was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980....

's Catcher in the Rye.

Works

• Na rubu svijeta (1956)
• Bacač kamena (1985)
• Izdajice (1961)
• Kratki izlet (1965)
• Luka (1976)
• Drugi ljudi na mjesecu (1978)
• Prošlo nesvršeno vrijeme (1992)