About the book

Molitev pred plovbo by Joža Horvat is a philosophical travelogue of great literary value. With this novel, the author rounds up his sea-inspired literary opus at 80 years of age. The book is a beautiful mosaic composed of sea scenes, various people, surprising events and legends. The true events are skillfully supplemented with elements of fiction and mythology. It is a book about humaneness and courage, a story about the lives of those dreamers and travelers who widen our notions of literature and the world in general. The adventures of the Horvat family, the real people as well as the literary characters, have the scope of a Greek tragedy. Joža Horvat sailed the world in the sixties. Slovenians remember him by his sea journal Nad brezni oceanov, the book Waitapu and the filming of his work Maček s čelado. Reading that leaves traces.