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4th PULA ESSAY DAYS
- 20th - 21st October,
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We launched the Pula Essay Days as an international literary event in Pula, viewing it also from its special literary perspective as town-essay. In the meantime, it has become traditional. Since its beginning, we have tried to promote the aesthetic, poetic, generation and other diversity of participants invited to the event.
Up to this year, it was easy to recognise the two parts of the meeting: one session was always on the essayistic approach to essay as a literary form, genre… (essay on essay), while the other one dealt with a given topic in an essayistic way. The widest framework in terms of annual topic selection and its approaches always referred to humanities, literature and arts in particular, so the first Pula Essay Days culturally dealt with the issues of globalisation and identity, the second meeting was on town seen as an essay, last year we 'were reading' Europe as our past, present and, certainly, future destiny – no matter how contradictory it seems to be.
This year the concept changes a little bit in order to provide some break, to avoid some tiredness resulted from the essayistic approach to essays, but also to bring some new vivacity that will be surely introduced by these two-day essayistic considerations on
LOVE AND HATE.
In its own way, essay ‘restores peace’ between literature and science, reflection and unrestricted imagination; due to the free selection of its contents, it is neither review nor feuilleton, debate nor article, as it is more complex than these. It is a ‘high-class’ and almost dominant form in modern literature. As Tin Ujević used to say, essay is ‘literary italics’ and, in a special way, it is certainly – the literary genre in the future.
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