Odati priznanje načelu i odati priznanje djelu
Give credit to the principle and give credit to the deed

Summary/Abstract: In literary criticism, I was taken aback before I gave my consent to it. I mean, not consent to be seen as a literary critic, but consent to be one at all. The principle of closeness and the principle of demand caused me - initially without explicit knowledge of what I was doing and with a semi-conscious internal resistance to it - to start doing what was enough to eventually be recognized and named as a literary critic. When young people who were close to me started asking me to write or speak a few sentences about their newly published literary works, I, as an already educated and determined philosopher, had a natural feeling of resistance-repulsion towards it as some low, unworthy action of a philosopher, deciding somewhere in myself that I will not allow myself to be reduced to a level where, out of consideration for others and their actions, my direct and reckless utterance of the truth will be disturbed. However, gradually and sporadically agreeing to it, I was directed to fulfill what was required, relying not only on my philosophical educational background, but, even more, on my philosophical nature. As the circle of those interested and close to me expanded, my participation in public literary life came down to meeting their requests - and thus a unique form of philosophical literary criticism was created to the point that I was veiled as a secondary poet in the eyes of others.

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