The Banquet in Blitva: A Novel in Three Books (Croatian: Banket u Blitvi: roman u tri knjige) is a political novel by Miroslav Krleža.

[1] The story takes place in the fictitious northeastern European nation of Blitva, which, after centuries of foreign rule and political instability, has become a newly independent state under a dictatorship headed by Colonel Kristian Barutanski.

[2][3]: 18  The first two parts of the novel deal with the political situation in Blitva and two figures present in the country: Colonel Barutanski, its dictator, and Niels Nielsen, an intellectual and dissident.

The third part reflect on Nielsen's life as a dissident, including his personal doubts and past actions.

[1] Other writers, such as Miroslav Vaupotić [hr], have compared the events in the novel to Józef Piłsudski's Poland.