Residua |
| Books listed below are available by direct purchase only from Ca’ Bon Gallery in Motovun, Istria |
| Begun in 1976, Residua is collection
of notes, essays, stories, diary entries, tales, vignettes, parables,
poems, fables, maxims, quotes, jokes, and aphorisms, as well as the
addenda that extend all of the above. At first, the writings were
collected at the end of the year into books and shared with friends
and acquaintances around the world. Collections of writings extending
over all years appeared in print on several occasions, the last time
in 1996. Many of these writings were published since 1976, most often
as selections on a particular theme.The writings trace the author's
life. He writes and paints. He has taught for many years both in
the United States and the United Kingdom. He was born in Zagreb in
1946 and grew up in Belgrade, where he lived from 1948 to 1970, when
he went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for graduate studies. He also
lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Reading and London, England. |
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| Residua (1996): | Selections, 1976-1995, Published by the Hereford Salon in London, this edition of 300 copies and some 1,300 pages is available for €1000 per copy |
| Why I Am Perhaps Not an Artist (1996): |
Published by the Hereford Salon in London but out of print for a couple of decades, the new edition of this selection from Residua on
the nature of art and the rôle of the artist in this world dominated by collectors, gallerists, museum curators, and art
critics is currently available in electronic form (click here for a PDF file) |
| Belgrade Postcards (2002): | Published by Vračarski Breg in Belgrade, this selection
from Residua on the author’s childhood in Belgrade is available
for €100 per copy (click here for a PDF file) |
| Istrian Postcards (2003): |
Published by Vračarski Breg in Belgrade, this selection
from Residua on the author’s return to Istria of his ancestors
is available for €100 per copy (click here for a PDF file) |
| Motovun Postcards (2007): |
Unpublished manuscript that contains some 45,000 words about life in Motovun, which is currently available in electronic form (click here for a PDF file) |
| Toward a Short History of Motovun (2010): |
Published by the Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag in Munich but currently out of print, the first edition of this selection from Residua including an extensive chronology from pre-Roman times to World War II is available in electronic form (click here for a PDF file), and so is the second and extended edition (click here for a PDF file) |
| What is to Be Done? (2014): | Published by HESPERIAedu in Belgrade, the first edition of this
selection from Residua on climate change is available from Amazon (click here for access), while the second edition is
currently available in electronic form (click here for a PDF
file) |
| Dying to Go to Strasbourg (2015): | Unpublished manuscript that contains some 50,000 words about
political repression in Croatia, a member of the European Union,
which is currently available in electronic form (click here for a PDF file) |
| Zagreb Postcards (2016): | Unpublished manuscript that contains more than 90,000 words about
the Croatian capital, the author's city of birth, which is
currently available in electronic form
(click here for a PDF file) |
| Who is Yoga? (2016): | Unpublished manuscript that contains more
than 100,000 words about yoga and the path to enlightenment,
which is currently available in electronic form
(click here for a PDF file) |
| Letters to The Economist (2017): | Unpublished manuscript of more than 200,000 words that contains more than a thousand letters to The Economist, a weekly newspaper of world renown, which is currently available in electronic form
(click here for a PDF file) |
| Fact and Fiction (2022): | Unpublished manuscript that contains more than a hundred stories, tales, and fables, which is currently available in electronic form
(click here for a PDF file) |
| Catching Up with Issa (2022): | Unpublished manuscript that contains more than two-thousand "haiku"
of 160 characters each, which is currently available in electronic form
(click here for a PDF file) |
| I Dreamt (2022): | Unpublished manuscript that contains more than eight-hundred dreams recorded over four decades, which is currently available in electronic form (click here for a PDF file) |
A selection from Residua is available on the World Wide Web (www.residua.org) — the site is searchable |
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