ZAGREB, Dec 29 (Hina) - A round table titled "Krleza Today" was held at the National and University Library Saturday, marking the 20th anniversary of the death of a Croatian writer Miroslav Krleza after his written legacy had been
unsealed. The main topic of the expert discussion was a fate of the writer's opus in the last 20 years. Around 20 eminent researchers into Krleza's opus and members of cultural institutions which are involved in research and popularisation of Krleza's works took part in the round table. Greeting the attendees, Culture Minister Antun Vujic said Krleza was different from all other great world's writers as he had not only criticised the society, but also "created a new reality". He stressed the importance of Krleza's lexicographic opus and the formation of the Lexicographic Institute, which, owing to Krleza, served as a refuge for all who had a creative asylum, and have not been getting along with reality. Krleza d
ZAGREB, Dec 29 (Hina) - A round table titled "Krleza Today" was held
at the National and University Library Saturday, marking the 20th
anniversary of the death of a Croatian writer Miroslav Krleza after
his written legacy had been unsealed.
The main topic of the expert discussion was a fate of the writer's
opus in the last 20 years. Around 20 eminent researchers into
Krleza's opus and members of cultural institutions which are
involved in research and popularisation of Krleza's works took part
in the round table.
Greeting the attendees, Culture Minister Antun Vujic said Krleza
was different from all other great world's writers as he had not
only criticised the society, but also "created a new reality". He
stressed the importance of Krleza's lexicographic opus and the
formation of the Lexicographic Institute, which, owing to Krleza,
served as a refuge for all who had a creative asylum, and have not
been getting along with reality. Krleza did not leave us a doctrine
but his creativity which has its literary and life opus in our
everyday lives, Vujic said.
One of the greatest connoisseurs of Krleza's opus, academician Ivo
Franges stressed the marking of the 20th anniversary of Krleza's
death started an expert discussion on his works and that Krleza's
scripts, now open to public, were offered to researchers. Franges
said Krleza was a recognisable individual talent and his works were
authentic. They had enormous power and his literature and politics
transcended literature, politics and life, Franges said.
Evaluating Krleza's works, a leading expert on Krleza's opus,
Stanko Lasic, said Krleza was one of the authors who had
demonstrated primordial disgust towards life, stressed his
disagreeing with anything that existed, overcoming it in three
ways: by humour, by his dealing with politics as an obsession, and
as a good actor, wherein the most important, and what can be called
his victory, were his working energy and beauty of the lyrical which
he had been hiding within himself.
A theologist, Ivan Golub, spoke about his seven-year-long
friendship with Krleza which lasted until Krleza's death,
stressing an unavoidable topic of their discussions had been the
Croatian Dominican cosmpolitan and one of advocates of pan-
Slavism, Juraj Krizanic.
Participants of the round table laid flowers on Krleza's grave.
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