Day Spring by Kosmac Ciril (5 results)

BINDING - Hardcover. Condition: CONDITION - Used/ Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket - Fair. with some wear. 204 Pages. Missing Front Free End Paper. Library Stamp On Half Title. Previous Owner's Name On Title Page. Jacket Corners Clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped dustcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. A reader's copy in less than standard condition. Boards quite scuffed with ring stain on front cover. Light Foxing on edges of text block, paste downs & endpapers. Text and images unmarked. Dj in 2 pieces & otherwise quite worn with chipping, small tears, abrasions & creases in a mylar cover.…

Ljubljana Drustvo slovenskih pisateljev 1988 Paperback, 169pp., 12.5x21cm., in very good condition. Rare. Kosmac constructs the novel around the return of a man to his native environment after years of absence. The encounter with the landscape, village and people awakens memories of childhood and youth and brings the protagonist into contact with a past that can no longer simply be recovered. The natural landscape of the region around the Idrijca River plays an important role, while personal memories and the historical upheavals experienced by Slovenia form an inseparable background to the narrative. The novel moves between present observation and recollection, combining intimate psychological experience with a broader portrait of rural Slovenian society. Kosma?'s clear and vivid prose, his attention to local life and his restrained use of symbolism give the work a distinctive atmosphere of nostalgia, loss and renewal. Pomladni dan, first published in Slovenian in 1953, is generally regarded as one of Kosmac's most important works. Ciril Kosmac (1910-1980) was a Slovenian writer whose work is closely associated with social realism. He drew extensively on his childhood in the Slovenian Littoral and on his experiences during the turbulent political and military history of the twentieth century. His writing is particularly known for short stories and novellas, with Pomladni dan and Balada o trobenti in oblaku among his best-known works. His prose combines precise observation of rural life with psychological depth, memory and a strong sense of place. A Day in Spring was translated into English by Fanny Susan Copeland and first appeared in English in 1959. The 1988 Ljubljana edition was issued within the Vilenica Slovene Contemporary Literature Collection.…

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: FINE. [6], 7-205 pp. 12mo, red cloth, gilt stamped spine and front cover lettering. 'Modern Yugoslavian Writers' series. Some foxing spots to endpapers and top edge, possible light silverfishing to tail edge, tips very faintly rubbed, three puncture spots to front hinge; tight binding and crisp pages; DJ tips moderately worn with a few small chips, spine faintly toned, clean and unclipped, now wrapped in mylar. An attractive copy of the author's only novel translated into English. 'Ciril Kosmac was a Slovenian novelist and short-story writer and Slovenian nationalis between the wars. *Pomladni dan* (A Day In Spring) was first published in Slovenian in 1953 and was his most successful novel, dealing with a writer's return home after fifteen years in exile.' - Harold Segel, *Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945.* *A Day In Spring* begins Kosmac's stylistic departure from Social Realism, embracing features of modernism and surrealism in what is seen as an incipient magic realism.…