THE OTHER VENICE - Looking at Venice from the Croatian Side of the Adriatic

About the book THE OTHER VENICE - Looking at Venice from the Croatian Side of the Adriatic

Intelektualac koji nas je u svojim esejima suočavao s dilemama i tjeskobama bivše Jugoslavije otkriva nam poeziju zapretanu u lucidnosti njegove proze, sjetna nadahnuća otrgnuta od zaborava. Snažnim i ujedno tananim zahvatima Matvejević nam je predočio Veneciju, onu „drugu“ koju do sada nismo poznavali, naveo nas je da je gledamo drukčije. Autor Mediteranskog brevijara, te „genijalne, neočekivane i blistave knjige“ (Claudio Magris) koja nam je pomogla da na novi način prilazimo Jadranskom moru, otkrio nam je u ovom djelu, uza sve ostalo, poeziju poniznosti i bezimenosti.  
Renato Minore, književni kritičar rimskoga Messaggera  
 
 The intellectual who in his essays brought us face to face with the dilemmas and anxieties of former Yugoslavia now gives us poetry veiled in the lucidness of his prose, melancholic inspiration snatched from oblivion. With his commanding yet subtle hand, Matvejević paints Venice, that “other” Venice we have not known until now, he makes us see it with different eyes. The author of Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape, that “magnificent, surprising and brilliant book” (Claudio Magris) that helped us approach the Adriatic in a new way, in this work uncovers, on top of everything else, the poetry of humility and namelessness.  
Renato Minore, Il Messaggero