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Eugen Kvaternik in the Interpretation of August Cesarec
Vice Zaninović
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In the introduction the author puts the stress upon the fact that August Cesarec dedicates the important part of his publicity and literary activity to the analysis of the young Rights movement and of the personality of Eugen Kvaternik. It is true, though, that in the twenties he did not give much weight to these subjects, but still he did not quite leave them out of his work - e. g. the treatise on Stjepan Radić (1925). Only towards the end of the thirties, in the second decade of the in-between-the-wars period, he came out with a series of texts on those subjects. When writing he was mainly incited by a distinct feeling of the need to start a personal fight with the propagators of the fascism, in our parts and to react forcefully against certain interpretations of the works of A. Starčvić and E. Kvaternik in pro-fascist press. A. Cesarec repeatedly pointed to the fact that the political and social conceptions of the founders of the Rights movement were completely opposite to the conceptions of the clerical and Frank movements supporters, who claimed A. Starčević and E. Kvaternik as their teachers.
The author considered that the publicity papers on the subject of the Rights movement were of double nature: the articles publisbed in the weekly »Nova riječ« (»The New Word«, 1939) showed more or less polemic tendencies; while the texts published in the magazine »Izraz« (»The Expression«, 1940, 1941) represented entirely worked out treatises on the events, written mostly analitically and calmly. 1n them, A. Cesarec brought a new light on the personality of E. Kvaternik and the coming on of the Rights movement. Doubtlessly the most important amongst them was the treatise »On the Crisis of the Party of Rights and our 'Commune' People« in 1871; based on a less known subject it deals with a theme not really discussed before A. Cesarec's attempt.
The last chapter of this composition brings an account of the play »Sin domovine« (»Son of His Homeland«, 1940); A. Cesarec dramatized the biography of E. Kvaternik, trying to give a clearer insight into the events of that period. The analysis of the play points to a series of important moments: A. Cesarec's incentive to work out this theme, his attitude towards the central character, his attentive and faithful reconstruction of the past, many good or less good sides in his building up of the structure of the piece, and finally the attitude of the critique towards the play.
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219170
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Datum izdavanja:
12.7.1972.
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