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On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Antun Branko Šimić (1898 - 1925), small under the stars, but so big in the constellation, poet of the Croatian regions at the beginning of the twentieth century, who marked the entire century with his turn in poetry, including ours in to whom we read him as if he were our contemporary, it is a good moment to remember how to graft ourselves into the future of his artistic reflection. With his views on language in art, we can freely say, the future of the true art of words began, which, here, has reached us in the twenty-first century. Therefore, I wonder, unburdened of all prejudices, inherited poetic pathos and technical poetry, can we today read Šimić as his contemporaries perceived him? Motivated by a radical turn in his spirit and soul, in the role of expressing a core truth, he introduces the freedom and brevity of the poem, I would say the sharpness of the verse, the syllable, the stanza, in order to finally expose the pure experience, the core of perception. By reading poetry today, the reader can absorb the experience from the moment it happened. That is, when the poet adopted it in his inner, emotional, psychological and intellectual way as a unique act. That future of poetic expression, which began with a radical change at the beginning of the last century, we are still living today.
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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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This essayistic presentation above all aims to point out a writer who may be unknown to literature, and at the same time one of the important Croatian reportage journalists, globetrotters, who left behind deep roots of travel writing, reading of very high criteria, sought after by readers, always in a good mood. As an employee of the largest Croatian media companies (among others, he also wrote for National Geographic), traveling around the country and the world, he left us a rich, almost pharaonic treasury of records, not from his own, but from the lives of others, most often a small, ordinary man, a peasant whom he encountered on the way, a herdsman in front of his flock, a fisherman in front of a storm, a shopkeeper and a bum. A man of the people or a man of the common people, of his homeland, the author of the anthology "Small places of my heart", he will translate that experience inspired into works that delight not only with their stylistic excellence, but also with the originality of linguistic performance as we knew and had the opportunity to learn from older writers of Dalmatian roots. , or even better, in the beauty and weight of hardened Zagora. We add another powerful name to their legacy in Croatian literature.
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Review of: Ivan Bitanga Šujan: Kuća pored puta, DHK HB Mostar i Ogranka Matice hrvatske u Imotskom, 2022. (str. 104)
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Review of: Radica Leko: Crno klupko i druge priče, HKD Napredak, Posušje 2023.
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Review of: Radica Leko: Polja Bijele Vile, HKD Napredak, Podružnica Posušje, 2022.
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Na blagdan sv. Agatona pape, 10. siječnja godine Gospodnje 2023., zauvijek je sklopio svoje umorne oči hrvatski književnik Fabijan Lovrić, ali nije umro. Kako može umrijeti netko tko je napisao više od trideset knjiga, u kojima je pjevao o svim ovozemaljskim temama, dodirujući svojim stihovima i ono nedokučivo: nevidljivo, neopipljivo, nemirisavo, a tako živo i tako blisko, osobito duši pjesnika?! Fabijan je do posljednjih dana hoda ovom nesigurnom udolinom: bilježio, opominjao, molio, vapio, uranjajući duboko u dubine svoje nutrine i svega onoga što ga je okruživalo, poput leptira, kojemu je posvetio i svoju posljednju pjesmu. Grad Knin, domovinu Hrvatsku i rodnu Bosnu i Hercegovinu nosio je s ponosom u svom srcu, pisao o njima: ode, ditirambe, poeme, eseje (…), živeći one tradicijske bogoljubne i domoljubne vrijednosti.
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Ivan Kordić (Blizanci, 22. veljače 1945.) pjesnik, književni kritičar, scenarist i novinar, pučkoškolsku i gimnazijsku naobrazbu stekao je u Mostaru, a studij hrvatsko-srpskog jezika i književnosti završio je na Pedagoškoj akademiji u Dubrovniku. Autor je većega broja zapaženih književnih djela i dobitnik prestižnih književnih nagrada, između ostalih: Šestoaprilska nagrada grada Sarajeva, nagrada za životno djelo Međunarodnog sajma knjiga u Sarajevu, Bosanski stećak, godišnje nagrade Društva pisaca BiH za najbolju knjigu, nagrada “Skender Kulenović”. Radio je i kao televizijski novinar, urednik informativnog programa i voditelj. Ivan Kordić preminuo je u Sarajevu 18. siječnja 2023.
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Review of: Anna Boguska, Życie na wyspach. Chorwacka współczesna proza insularna. Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk & Fundacja Slawistyczna: Warszawa, 2020, 232 pages
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The article presents the drama "Dubrovačka trilogija" [A Trilogy of Dubrovnik] by Ivo Vojnovič in the perspective of the historical study "Pad Dubrovnika" [The Fall of Dubrovnik] of his younger brother Lujo. The springboard for this discussion is Antun Gustav Matoš’s suggestion to read both works as parallel texts on account of the fact that they both complement each other in establishing the image of a ‘dead city,’ which in fact, the nineteenth-century Dubrovnik appeared to be. The article examines the key components of the poetics of the trilogy, that is, space-time and selected motifs such as the ones related to the characters as they constitute the most essential elements of poetics in this particular context of the analysis. Their semantics and functions in the presented literary vision are complemented by a thorough examination of a historical commentary by Lujo Vojnovič.
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Poems by Nusret Idrizović: "Grobari pjevaju", "Čežnja", "Daljine", "Breza", "Tjeskobe", "Pustolovine boja", "Mlinica", Kletva i molitva", "Jedva čujan vrisak potisnute i nezadovoljene", "Jutro", "Šapat česme", "Slave je dovama", "Česmina vremena; Šapati vodene smrti".
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At this time of the year two thousand and seven, Nusret Idrizović, a native of Bjelopolska, left us in Zagreb, with the last wish that Sarajevo be his eternal resting place. He is a Bjelopojian by birth, from Idrizović, a well-known lineage to which this city showed respect by making one quarter of this town in Polimlje, Ejdna mahala is recognized by them, as Idriska mahala. He lived his life in Zagreb, where as a journalist and writer he left an indelible mark on the culture of Croatia. He was recognized with an award "Vladimir Nazor" is the highest recognition given by this in the field of literature state. Idrizović was awarded this award in 1987 for his novel "Wheel of Secret Signs". He ended his long and exciting literary journey with the novel of an unusual structure, the autobiographical recognition "Effendi in the Secret City", the novel "Cruel Fates" which is the most valuable for this he left a topic worthy of "contempt" to the world's cultural heritage, and with a book poetry with the nostalgic title "Bistrica dawn", from which this dear I remind my friend with the song "Between homelands". From the time of our intensive socializing, the reporter's note "The smell of grapes and walnuts" keeps me going.
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Review of: Miroslav KRLEŽA: LA MIA INFANZI AD AGRAM (1902-1903), prevela na italijanski: Anita VUCO, Infinito edizioni, Formigine, 2022.
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Review of: Nikola ŠIMIĆ TONIN: Krletka života, Hrvatsko književno društvo, Ogranak Zadar, 2022.
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