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Literary route Croatia, October 2013 Once upon a time…in Europe! 1 Grundtvig Learning Partnership project „Once upon a time…in Europe“ Lifelong Learning Programme Project no. 2012‐1‐ES1‐GRU06‐53427 4 This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Once upon a time…in Europe! 2 contents: INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 4 ABOUT ZAGREB ............................................................................................................................................... 7 1. AUGUST ŠENOA ........................................................................................................................................... 7 2. THE SQUARE OF EUROPE............................................................................................................................. 8 3. ZAGREB CATHEDRAL .................................................................................................................................... 8 4. DOLAC MARKET ........................................................................................................................................... 9 5. TKALČIĆEVA STREET ................................................................................................................................. 10 6. MARIJA JURIĆ ZAGORKA ........................................................................................................................... 10 7. THE BLOODY BRIDGE (KRVAVI MOST) ....................................................................................................... 11 8. LONG STREET, GRADEC, STONE GATE ....................................................................................................... 11 9. ST. MARK’S SQUARE .................................................................................................................................. 12 1o. DVERCE, LOTRŠČAK TOWER .................................................................................................................... 13 11. ANTUN GUSTAV MATOŠ .......................................................................................................................... 14 12. VIEWPOINT AT KATARINA’S SQUARE ...................................................................................................... 14 13. BAN JOSIP JELAČIĆ SQUARE ................................................................................................................... 15 14. THE GROUNDED SUN .............................................................................................................................. 16 15. PETAR PRERADOVIĆ & VLADIMIR VIDRIĆ ............................................................................................... 16 16. NIKOLA TESLA .......................................................................................................................................... 17 17. TIN UJEVIĆ ............................................................................................................................................... 17 THE GREEN HORSESHOE ............................................................................................................................... 18 18. SQUARE OF MARSHAL TITO & CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE ............................................................. 18 19. MAŽURANIĆ SQUARE .............................................................................................................................. 19 20. MARKO MARULIĆ SQUARE & THE CROATIAN NATIONAL ARCHIVES ...................................................... 20 21. BOTANICAL GARDEN ............................................................................................................................... 21 22. ZAGREB CITY LIBRARIES ........................................................................................................................... 21 23. SQUARE OF KING TOMISLAV ................................................................................................................... 22 24. SQUARE OF JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER ................................................................................................. 23 25. PARK ZRINJEVAC (NIKOLA ŠUBIĆ ZRINSKI SQUARE) ............................................................................... 24 THE KRAPINA NEANDERTHAL MUSEUM ....................................................................................................... 25 TRAKOŠĆAN CASTLE ...................................................................................................................................... 25 VARAŽDIN ...................................................................................................................................................... 25 LITERARY READINGS ...................................................................................................................................... 27 Once upon a time…in Europe! 3 INTRODUCTION Dear guests, we wish you all a very warm welcome to our beautiful country Croatia, a homeland of many famous writers and poets and their interesting characters, many of whom you will be meeting today! We hope your visit to our country will awake in all of you a great interest for the hidden and valuable pearls of our national literature which is as famous around the world as our beautiful Adriatic coast. After hearing many of the interesting stories of the authors' lives and the impact of thier work, we hope to give you a sense of our past and present culture. We invite you to injoy seeing, breathing, feeling, tasting and imagining all the rich ways which Croatian writers, poets and their readers used and still use to develop and preserve the literature treasures of Croatia! Croatian team Once upon a time…in Europe! 4 Reading in digital age Is there reading in digital age or is it going to survive? Can browsing the Internet, reading Wikipedia, blogs, posts on social networks od ODF books be regarded as reading? What about watching videos, using simulators and experimenting on the net? Or is it that only (dusty) books can be read? Plato was talking, even writing, against writing! He argued that writing thoughts will make people's mind lazy and destimulate thinking. Similarly people were opposing the printing press being afraid that knowledge will be available to those not able to comprehend its full meaning and consequences of its use. The same seems to repeat with digital technologies. On the other hand would the icons of human literacy be writes if they lived today? Or would they rather express their creativity in the role of film directors or even actors? Likewise, is Hitchcock, Spielberg, Huston, Lennon, Brando and other icons of contemporary culture lived centuries ago, would they be poets and writers? No one can tell for sure but it is sure that it is all about creativity and that technology only opens up new ways to express human creativity? Now, what it the essence of reading? The media? The form? The intended audience? The content? Or the act of searching for, assimilating, analyzing other people’s ideas, feelings, perceptions, messages? And using them in our own lives. The most important is to read, to tap into other people's minds. Because written (recorded, painted, photographed, …) snapshot of part of human's mind given at disposal to other fellow humans today, and in the future is THE thing that made us stand out from all other known species and has created the modern civilization as we know it. The most important in reading is what you do wile reading, how active your mind is, rather than the form of the source of information. Therefore any collective effort to foster reading AND exchange for ideas among readers is one of the most fundamental activities and should supported to highest extent. I welcome all participants of the “Once upon a time in Europe” project and encourage all of you to invite as many people you know to reading and talking about read not only in the framework of this project but in all circumstances and in the future. Off course, there is nothing as addictive as the smell of paper and ink and glue of the cover of a good book Predrag Pale Once upon a time…in Europe! 5 Predrag MatvejeviĆ Predrag Matvejević (born 1932) is a Croatian and Bosnian writer known for his writing as well as for his political activism. His book Mediterranean Breviary: A Cultural Landscape has been a bestseller in many European countries, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Matvejević taught at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (New Sorbonne) in Paris as well as in the Sapienza in Rome. He is the past President and now a lifelong honorary Vice‐President of the PEN International. Additionally, he is a member of the World Political Forum. A HISTORY ABOUT MAN AND THE SEA... (excerpt from Mediterranean Breviary) Everywhere the eye can see—from vista to vista, event to event— there are stories about the sea and the coast, the islands and isolation, the body andincarceration, about winds, rivers, and estuaries, about ourselves: the eternal rituals of rise and fall, departure and return, grandiloquence and parody, palingenesis and palimpsest, circlemaking and circlebreaking. The moment we try to penetrate these oppositions,