MARIJAN MIKAC (Senj, 29.1.1903. - Atlantik kod Cape Towna, 16.3.1972.)
MARIJAN MIKAC (Senj, 29th Jan. 1903. - Atlantik near Cape Town, 16th March 1972)

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the life and work of, certainly, not much known but very prolific Croatian emigre writer, Marijan Mikac. His literary work, his work on criticism, his journalistic writing and cinematic art have been analyzed in this report. Likewise, some light has been thrown on his relation to the Croatian language, specially as regards the problems which used to appear among the emigres. At first he was affiliated with the zenitismus, the movement arising within the European literary avant-garda wing during early 20th c, to become later the man of letters who accepted traditional literary forms, then the satirical writer and writer who was turned either to the social or national problematics. The author, after analyzing his work, has come to a conclusion that his literary work was of a rather poor quality, but he was good literary critic and excellent journalist and connoisseur of the motion-picture art problematics. His importance in the cultural life of emigration as well as his influence on their life was great and filled with the self-sacrificing and consistent work, marked in the first place by his aspirations for the full independence and freedom of the Croatian state.

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