Review article
Religious world of Miroslav Krleža
Drago Šimundža
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
The religious world in Krleža's literary works is very complex
and multi-layered. Although the author's atheistic approaches and
opinions are prevalent, there are also various options and characters,
religious and irreligious, which is extensively discussed in the
complete study. Here we publish the introductory part, which, on the
one hand, looks into the essential characteristics of Krleža's literary
output, and, on the other hand, into the earliest religious experiences
of young Krleža, or more accurately, his literary record from later
years (1942), about his boyhood (the life of a server at the altar) and
his atheistic transformation in the first grammar - school classes.
As a representative of several generations, Krleža was very
dynamic, literary and ideologically. His complete works include about
60 volumes. There are ali literary genres and kinds in them, many of
them of lasting value. They are full of various stories and destinies,
historical unrests and philosophical divides of people and worlds. His
views are always critical and pessimistic; in his philosophy evil is
more powerful than the good. Therefore, he rather speaks about the
imponderable destiny of evil and historical misery of middle - class society than about the redeeming power of Being in the final victory of the good.
According to his own admission, he was attracted to atheism in
his young ages because of his inclination toward ethical freedom,
toward Isabella, as well as because of Danvin's theory that man was
relative to the monkey.
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Publication date:
21.9.2000.
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