Croatian Studies Review, Vol. 7 No. 1, 2011.
Original scientific paper
History, Politics and War in the Life of a Resistance Poet and Statesman
Walter Vori Lalich
; Macquarie University, Sydney
Abstract
Poet Vladimir Nazor had a key influence on the Croatian national
consciousness with his poems, stories and myths reflecting current
political and social difficulties and the fight between Good and Evil. His
still popular works uplifted the national spirit from the start of his active
life towards the end of the 19th century. Nazor made one of the most
spectacular symbolic gestures throughout Europe during the Second
World War by joining the antifascist national liberation movement.
Nazor became a symbol of resistance. His role of a distinguished elder
statesman extended after the war years, but recollections of some
contemporaries raise interesting questions.
Keywords
Nazor; poet; antifascist; resistance; statesman
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Publication date:
15.10.2011.
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