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3 unusual facts about Miroslav Krleža


Borislav Arapović

Miroslav Krleža Den kroatiske guden Mars ("The Croatian god Mars"): tillkomsthistoria, ISBN 91-7146-340-2 Dissertation in Swedish, 1984.

Frana Marija Vranković

She played Maria in Theatre &TD's (Zagreb) production of In Agony by Miroslav Krleža, Victoria on The Histrionic Summer (Zagreb) in The Wedding Is On, Where Is The Bride and she is playing in scenic patchworks produced by Organization The Rest Is Music.

Miroslav Krleža

This sombre and highly complex multilayered poem evoking reminiscences of Bruegel and Bosch paintings, written in a unique hybrid language based on Croatian kajkavian dialect interspersed with Latin, German, Hungarian and the archaic Croatian highly stylised idiom, radiates universal dark truths on the human condition epitomized in Croatian historical experience.


Croatian language

On that day, nineteen Croatian scholarly institutions and cultural organizations dealing with language and literature (Croatian Universities and Academies), including foremost Croatian writers and linguists (Miroslav Krleža, Radoslav Katičić, Dalibor Brozović and Tomislav Ladan among them) issued the "Declaration on the Status and Name of the Croatian Standard Language".

Karlo Štajner

Title of Štajner's book "A Hand from the Grave " comes from Miroslav Krleža who mentions Štajner in his "Diaries" and compares him to the biblical Lazarus who rises from the grave.

Mladen Urem

Urem is frequent a contributor to the US literary journals Grand Street (New York), Partisan Review (Boston), World Literature Today (Norman, Oklahoma) and Corner (Oakland, California), in which he has also published various works by the Croatian writers Janko Polić Kamov, Miroslav Krleža, Ivo Andrić and Ivan Goran Kovačić.


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