The crackdown on the Croatian national movement and subsequent professional and social degradation resulted in Aralica's return to his Christian and Catholic roots, abandonment of doctrinaire propagandist literature and formation of his own literary credo.

The best among them (Psi u trgovištu/Dogs at a bazaar, 1979; Duše robova/Slaves' souls, 1984; Graditelj svratišta/Builder of an inn, 1986; Asmodejev šal/Asmodey's shawl, 1988) show similar traits: these are essentially novels of complex narrative techniques recreating dramatic events in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina from 16th to 18th century and describing historical fatum of Croats caught in the "Clash of Civilizations"- a three centuries long warfare between the Austrian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and Venice.

Aralica successfully mastered many divergent elements in his fiction, so that his finest novels are both replete with contemplative wisdom sayings on human condition and rammed with action; also, his artistry is expressed in numerous naturalist passages integrated in the overarching Christian vision of life where natural and the supernatural fuse into one reality.

[2] The most famous one is Fukara ("Good for nothing") from 2002, a satirical-political attack on "multi-culturalist ideology" as promulgated by controversial American billionaire George Soros.

However, Aralica has also become one of the cultural and intellectual icons of nationalist conservatism in Croatia, advocating the return to the tradition symbolized by "ognjište" ("hearth").