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The Banquet in Blitva - Krleza, Miroslav, and Levinger-Goy, Jasna (Translated by), and Goy, Edward Dennis (Translated by)
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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 fist. He is opposed by Niels Nielsen, a melancholy intellectual who hurls invective at the dictator and the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of society. Barutanski himself despises the sycophants beneath him and recognizes in Nielsen a genuine foe; but Nielsen, haunted by his own lapses of conscience, struggles to escape both the regime and the role of opposition leader that ...

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The Banquet in Blitva 2004, Northwestern University Press

ISBN-13: 9780810118621

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