Češke teme hrvatskog modernističkog pokreta
Czech Topics in the Croatian Modernist Movement

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses texts with Czech topics and written by Czech authors in literary journals of Croatian Modernist movement. The Prague group of Croatian “young ones”, as well as the group previously formed around the high-school journal Nova nada were the first to clearly exhibit the programmatic relationship towards the Czech literature and culture, mostly defined through the analogy observed by them in certain aspects of Croatian and Czech social moment: what the followers of the Croatian national revival tried to achieve through the fiction and pretentious philological debates, the “young ones” (Vladimir Jelovšek, Milan Marjanović) tried to achieve through literary and art criticism, drawing the parallel between the relationship of Croatian and Czech “young” and “old” authors and artists. The articles written by Czech authors on peasant movement and the role of students in the society clearly point to Croatian society as well. After the revivall’ authorities – Dobrovský, Šafařík and Kollár, Masaryk becomes the first and the last great Czech authority of Croatian cultural public through the intermediation of Radić and his collaborators. The case of Croatian Modernists shows us that the firm programmatic focus on the Czech literature and culture was connected with the appearance of various modifications of pan-Slavistic ideas – Illyric earlier on, and during the Croatian Modernist movement, the pro-Yugoslavian orientation of the large number of its followers. In both cases, pragmatism resulted in relatively small number of translations of highquality texts of younger Czech authors.

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