Early Modernist Croatian Poetry in French: Antun Gustav Matoš (1873 – 1914)
Hello language lovers, It's time to revisit some poetry and this time we will travel back in time to Croatia and visit Antun Gustav Matoš (1873 – 1914), a poet, short story writer, journalist and essayist. Željko Ivanek wrote for the Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List that Matoš's poetry described life in the "Austro-Hungarian periphery" referring to the imperial Vienna and Budapest being the centers of colonial power while their Balkan colonies remained in their periphery. It has been said that he has failed his grade 7 Croatian class, so nobody expected that he would be one of the greatest Croatian writers. He spent his time between Zagreb, Paris and Belgrade, and some of his poetry is clearly influenced by Baudelaire and de Maupassant. His poetry features estheticism, symbolism, impressionism and neoromanticism, among others. Politically, he was a prava š, a name used for supporters of Ante Star č evi ć 's party Croatian Party of Rights (Hrvatska stranka pra...
