Croatology, Vol. 14 No. 2, 2023.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.59323/k.14.2.2
Presentations and Criticisms of the Literary and Christian Work of the Writer, Journalist and Non-fiction Writer Luka Brajnović According to Hrvatska revija from 1951 to 2000
Danijel Labaš
orcid.org/0000-0002-2339-6277
; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Luka Brajnović (Kotor, 1919 – Pamplona, 2001) was a Croatian writer, journalist, non-fiction writer and media theorist, who spent a large part of his life working in Pamplona, Spain. Before leaving Croatia, he worked for the magazines Luč and Hrvatska straža, and published the novels Forgotten Tears and Tripo Kokoljić. In Madrid, together with the Dominican priest Hijacint Eterović, he edited the Catholic revue Osoba i duh. He founded the "Osvit" publishing house, in which he published the works of Vinko Krišković, Augustin Juretić and Lucijan Kordić, as well as the Holy Bible in the revised translation of Archbishop Šarić. For almost thirty years, he wrote a column on foreign policy in the daily Diario de Navarra. Along the way, he was an editor in the magazine Nuestro Tiempo, collaborating in several other magazines in Spain, Portugal and Mexico. In the first part, this paper briefly presents the writing activity of Luka Brajnović after he went into exile in 1945. Then, the research part of the paper is devoted to analyzing the articles that were published about him or that he personally published in Hrvatska revija from 1951 to 2000, because that research had heretofore not been carried out. Furthermore, this paper try to find out if he is mentioned in the context of the values of Christianity, Christian spirituality and inspiration and if any of these values can be located in his literary and journalistic texts published in Hrvatska revija and in the said period. Comparatively, his work is placed in the context of the modest reception of literary criticism of his works published in Croatia.
Keywords
Luka Brajnović; Hrvatska revija; poetry; Christianity; journalism; Croatian emigration
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312153
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Publication date:
23.12.2023.
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