Miroslav Krleža

Miroslav Krleža was born in Zagreb in 1893 and attended the Austro-Hungarian military academies at Pécs and Budapest. Having left in 1912 to join the Serbian army, he was expelled as a suspected spy, then sent to the Galician front: this double disillusionment fed all of his work. A polemicist and founder of journals, he dominated the literature of his country for half a century, through drama, the novel, the essay and poetry. A Marxist, he refused socialist realism in a famous quarrel that cost him his place in the party, before directing the Yugoslav encyclopaedic institute after 1945. He died in Zagreb in 1981.

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• NovelThe Return of Philip LatinowiczPovratak Filipa LatinoviczaMiroslav Krleža · 1932Literature