Review article
Mihovil Nikolić: a vignette, an occasion to reminisce (a contribution to the cultural topography of Titius)
Ivan Bošković
Abstract
The author presents two vignettes: the fi rst is an excerpt from Dragan Pavelić’s Sarajlije (Sarajevans) describing the death and funeral of Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević (“all learned Sarajevans attended“), and the second is the account about the same event
penned by Mihovil Nikolić „the most overlooked poet of Croatian mondernity“. Nikolić was born in 1878 in, according to his own record, „tiny lone village“ of Kričke near Drniš, situated on a“deserted, wide plain.“ He was one of the founders of the Croatian Writers’ Association, and also one of the presidents of Matrix Croatica.
In his Fragments of my life, he left an account about Kranjčević – his life, his illness and therapy, death and funeral, and Matoš’ arrival to Sarajevo. The dialogue between the two vignettes – the pavelić’s and Nikolić’s – reveals literary heritage as an unquenchable
sparkle. The author considers both the Nikolić’s s vignette and his work in general as a memorable contriburion to the cultural heritage of his homeland, and this paper is an attempt to place the author and his work within the cultural topography of Titius.
Keywords
Croatian literature of the modern; Mihovil Nikolić; Kričke near Drniš; Kranjčević; residents of Sarajevo
Hrčak ID:
117710
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Publication date:
22.3.2011.
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