Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.32004/k.56.3-4.5
THE UNKNOWN JOSIP HORVAT: Articles in “Obzor” on the Consequences of the Great War
Željko Vegh
; Gradska knjižnica Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
SUMMARY
The Croatian journalist Josip Horvat (1896 – 1968) was an Austro-Hungarian World War One soldier, and as such he was in Galicia in 1916, where he was taken prisoner by the Russian Army. He returned from captivity in September of 1918. In 1919 he returned to “Obzor”, the newspaper he had worked for since 1913. Horvat's fifteen articles were published in “Obzor”, from December 1920 till the summer of 1923, mostly during 1922. In the published articles Horvat points out to the decadency and creative impotence that had, in his opinion, overtaken European writers following the Great War, setting as examples certain concrete European literary works. In the said articles Horvat shows his tendencies as an Anglophile, supporter of British colonial politics, whereby the consequences of his participation in the war are obvious: Horvat returns from the war as a cynic who is convinced that war could yet be useful to the people affected by it.
Keywords
: Josip Horvat; World War One – consequences; European war literature; Anglophilism; cynicism
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315251
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Publication date:
5.11.2023.
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