Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 33 No. 1, 2007.
Original scientific paper
The forgotten and concealed Writer from Orebić and Split, Živko Vekarić
Anatolij Kudrjavcev
; Faculty of philosophy in Split
Abstract
Živko Vekarić (1899 – 1993) belongs to the group of the so-called forgotten or tacitly ignored Croatian writers, and the reasons for this disregard are to be found within the boundaries of an ideological background. As an ardent anglophile, Vekarić distinguished himself by his translations into English of a number of British and American authors, as well as by his translations of highly renowned Croatian poets.
Vekarić set off on his long literary journey as a poet, writing a kind of a spiritual autobiography set in the dramatic historical events of the time he participated in. Along with poetry, he actively engaged in the creation of pieces for the theatre. Thus he wrote several unusual historical plays set in the ancient and the contemporary town of Split, the town in which he spent most of his lifetime. This, however, did not prevent him from writing about his native Orebić, and it is in the descriptions of this small place on the Pelješac peninsula that his truly Mediterranean spirit found its full expression. He was particularly drawn to seafaring topics, so much so that shortly before the end of his life he even published the first part of his novel At Anchorage.
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Publication date:
3.5.2007.
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