ON THE OCCASION OF PROMOTION OF THE HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE BY MILIVOJ SOLAR
History of World Literature by Milivoj Solar is a comprehensive chronological overview of the basic facts about the literary phenomena of global significance. Relying on the spiritual-historical method of writing literary his-tory, Goethe’s view of world literature as a set of aesthetically valuable liter-ary works that reflect the unity in the diversity of languages and cultures of the world, and the hermeneutic approach to understanding the relationship between the parts and the whole, Professor Solar wrote the history of literature as a story that offers an insight into the history of ideas and the continuity of the development of literary forms at the same time. Thanks to the abundance of clearly arranged relevant facts and short interpretive portraits of individual works, Solar’s History transcends the author’s intention to write a guide for students and becomes, for lucid readers, a starting point for further literary research.