2. August Šenoa

3. Life
 November 14th 1838 – December 13th 1881
 Not Croatian by nationality
 Zagreb - Prague - Vienna – Zagreb
 Studied law
 Novelist, critic, poet, dramatist, editor,...
" Father of Croatian novel "
"Creator of Croatian reading public "

4. The Age of Šenoa – Šenoino doba
 1860 – 1881
 Transition from Romanticism to Realism
 More than ten novels
 Goldsmith’s gold (Zlatarovo zlato )
 Pirates of Senj (Čuvaj se Senjske ruke)
 Peasants’ revolt (Seljačka buna)
 Literature magazine Wreath (Vjenac)
 Patriotic thematics

5. Goldsmith’s gold (1871)
 First Croatian historic novel
 16th century in Zagreb, after peasants’ revolt
 Parts written in Latin
 Main story is constant fight between declining nobility
and rising citizens
 Love story of Goldsmith’s daughter Dora ruined by
people that seemed like her friends
‘’All that glitters is not gold’’

6. Šenoa’s other works
 Our literature (Naša književnost)
 Stone wedding (Kameni svatovi)
 Be yourself! (Budi svoj!)
 Diogenes
 Carnation from poet’s grave
 (Karanfil s pjesnikova groba)
 The Curse (Kletva) - not finished

7. Antun Gustav Matoš
13. June 1873 - 17. March 1914

8. Life
 Born in Tovarnik, Croatia – moved to Zagreb
 Veterinary College in Vienna – didn’t finish
 Deserted in 1894 - next thirteen years of his life in
Vienna and Paris
 In 1908 he returned to Zagreb and stayed there until
his death in 1914

9. Literary work
 He was a central figure of croatian modernism
 Short stories - he deeply analized inner world of his main
characters
 His short story ˝The Power of Conscience˝ is considered the start of
croatian modernism
 Travelouges, where he used the landscape to convey his
emotions
 Later in his life he started writing poems - his best works

10. His most famous work
 The poem ˝Comfort of hair˝
 Love poem, in which he describes a deceased loved
woman, who he saw in his dreams
 Every part of her is dead, only her hair appears to be
alive, giving him some comfort, hence the name of the
poem

11. Miroslav Krleža

12. Life
 7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981

 Born and died in Zagreb, Croatia
 Finished military school and military academy in Hungary
 After the war - recognised as a modernist writer
 Greatest Croatian writer of 20th century
 Founder of Institute of Lexicography

13. Literary work
 More than 50 works in many categories
 Poetry, drama, novels, essays, diaries, short stories...
 The most of his works were of social thematics, about politics
and life in Croatia
 Politic reviews: The Flame (Plamen), Today (Danas) and
Literary Republic (Književna republika) - BANNED
 Anti-war attitude – collection of short stories Croatian God
Mars (Hrvatski bog Mars)

14. Most important work
 Messrs. Glembay (Gospoda Glembajevi) - 1928
 Drama
 First part of the Glembay cycle
 Rise of a wealthy family in Croatia which got its wealth
through stealing, killing and fraud and later their fall
 Like the Glembays, the Austro-Hungarian Empire Croatia was
part of, will soon fall apart

15. Other works
 The Return of Phillip Latinovicz (Povratak Filipa
Latinovicza) – 1932 – first modern novel in Croatian
literature
 The Banners (Zastave) " Croatian War and Peace "
 Central European society before, during and after WW I
 Diaries
 ‘’Someone who failed in all aspects of life, can only be a
poet or a politician’’

16. THE END
Anton Kontić
Filip Peričić Croatia