Antun Gustav Matoš

Antun Gustav Matoš was born in Tovarnik, in Syrmia, in 1873, and grew up in Zagreb. He left the military veterinary school in Vienna, was called up and deserted in 1894 by crossing into Serbia: an exile of fourteen years began, in Belgrade, where he played the cello in orchestras, then in Geneva and above all in Paris. Granted an amnesty, he returned to Zagreb in 1908 and became there the most feared critic of his time and the introducer of French Symbolism. He came late to verse, of which he wrote only a handful, among the most widely read in the language. He died of throat cancer in 1914, at the age of forty.

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• Short storiesIverjeAntun Gustav Matoš · 1899not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain