33 Facts About Croatian literature

Croatian literature refers to literary works attributed to the medieval and modern culture of the Croats, Croatia, and Croatian.

The oldest testaments to Croatian literacy are dated to the 11th and 12th centuries, and Croatian medieval literature lasts until the middle of the 16th century.

Some elements of medieval forms can be found even in 18th century Croatian literature, which means that their influence had been stronger in Croatia than in the rest of Europe.

Early Croatian literature was inscribed on stone tablets, hand-written on manuscripts, and printed in books.

That interaction makes Croatian writing unique among Slavic prose, and even in European literature.

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Croatian medieval literature reflects the general trends within European literature, though there were some different traits, for example, literature directed at the common people; a strong background tradition of oral literature, blending religious topics and interweaving of genres.

Croatian early literature was influenced by two spheres: from the East and from the West.

Croatian literature expanded into prose and plays with authors such as Dinko Zlataric, Mavro Vetranovic and Marin Drzic.

The first Croatian literature novel, written by Petar Zoranic and published posthumously in 1569 in Venice, featured the author as an adventurer, portraying his passionate love towards a native girl.

In Croatian literature, it was marked by flamboyance, with pious and lofty themes using rich metaphors in which the form becomes more important than the content.

Croatian literature published histories, epics, reformed the lettering system, formed a printing press, and wrote chronicles and calendars.

Senoa considered that Croatian literature was too remote from real people's lives and that artistic creations should have a positive effect on the nation.

Croatian literature introduced the historical novel into Croatian literature, and from 1874 to 1881 edited the literary journal "Vienac" which was the focal point of Croatian literary life until 1903.

Croatian literature continued the tradition of the Illyrian movement, at the same time introducing elements of Realism into Croatian literature.

Croatian literature was the author of the first syntax of standard Croatian, Skladanja ilirskog jezika.

Croatian literature authored several school-level textbooks and his Slovnica hrvatska published in 1871 was both a standard high-school textbook and a norm and codification of standard language for the period.

Croatian literature achieved some success with his poem "Kipci i popevke",.

Croatian literature's writing is modernist, though based on a realist tradition.

Croatian literature's prose remains essentially modern even today in both its structure and subject.

Croatian literature's work spanning essays, reviews, novels, poems, and travel books was highly influential.

Croatian literature's role was considerably strengthened following Yugoslavia's break with Stalin, and in 1950, he founded the "Leksikografski zavod FNRJ" in Zagreb.

Croatian literature announced the birth of a new era, one that allowed freedom of choice for expressive means, an opening up to western influences and a somewhat more open treatment of literary themes.

Croatian literature published a series of short stories, novels, essays and travel books, his essays challenging the Croatian national question "Svi smo mi odgovorni".

Croatian literature dealt with the conflict of a sensitive individual in middle age, unable to achieve an authentic identity.

Croatian literature was preoccupied with the idea of human loss, and the struggle to achieve an authentic existence, which he portrayed in a series of semantically layered images.

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Knowledgeable about current trends in world Croatian literature, he produced a modernist poetry version of myths and legends, rewriting classical motifs and forms.

Croatian literature was close to the upcoming generation of new writers in the 1960s, as editor of the Hrvatski tjednik, a cult publication in the period of the Croatian Spring.

Croatian literature passionately advocated the idea of liberal democracy and Croatian national emancipation.

Croatian literature wrote some notable works for adults; prose and drama based on his linguistic and stylistic virtuosity and wit that occasionally become happy pastiches of literary stereotypes from domestic and world literature.

Croatian literature achieved international success with the lexicographical work "Mediteranski brevijar".

Croatian literature produced at the end of the 1970s a series of historical novels inspired by the phrases and themes of old travel books and chronicles, folk literature and Ivo Andric's narrative technique.

Croatian literature was significant as a critic and anthologist, seeking to reinterpret ideas about post-war Croatian poetry, affirming some previously neglected early modernists and writers who built autonomous poetic worlds, especially Nikola Sop.

Croatian literature started as a fantasist willing to experiment, then went on to write a series of novels, mainly detective fiction.