Fran Galović

Fran Galović (20 July 1887 – 26 October 1914) was a Croatian writer who lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Fran Galović
Born20 July 1887
Peteranec, Austria-Hungary[1]
Died26 October 1914 (aged 27)
Radenković, Austria-Hungary[1]
Pen nameGledalac (Spectator)
Hrvatski đak (Croatian student)
Samotni putnik (Lone traveler)
LanguageCroatian
Notable workZ mojih bregov

Biography

Born in Peteranec near Koprivnica, he studied slavistics and philology in Zagreb. During that time he started the magazine Mlada Hrvatska. He worked as a teacher in the II. Gymnasium of Zagreb. 4 books were published during his lifetime: Tamara (1907), Četiri grada (1913), Začarano ogledalo (1913) and Ispovijed (1914). Most of his poems were written in the Kajkavian dialect,[2] but none of his Kajkavian poems were published during his lifetime.[3] He died in battle on the Serbian Front during World War I.[2]

In the collection Z mojih bregov Galović repeated some motives known from his Štokavian poetry: the drama of leaving the homeland, the impossibility of return, the unattainability of happiness, the anxiety of losing one's roots, the tragedy of transience. In some poems, impressionistic images of idyllic homeland predominate and some resemble expressionist miniatures with a strong charge of apart sensibility (lonely premonitions of death, unknown "something", pictorial and sound grotesque). Acting in the era of Croatian modernity, he accepted a variety of artistic and aesthetic programs. That is why his works are marked by stylistic searches in a thematic range from ancient mythology to the twilight atmospheres of European symbolism.


Works
  • Tamara
  • Četiri grada
  • Začarano ogledalo
  • Ispovijed

Posthumously:

  • Pjesme, 1, 2, 1940.
  • Članci i kritike, 1942.
  • Drame, 1942.
  • Pripovijesti, 1942.
  • Djela Frana Galovića, 1-10, 1942.-1943.
  • Pjesme, 1943.
  • Z mojih bregov, 1948.
  • Poezija i proza, 1963.
  • Lirika. Pripovijetke. Drame. Kritika, 1966.
  • Izbor iz djela, 1969.
  • Z mojih bregov, 1944.
  • Izabrana djela, 1997.
  • Izabrane pjesme, 1997.
  • Izbor iz djela, 1999.
  • Zeleni oblak, 2000.
  • Z mojih bregov i druge pjesme, 2002.
  • Pjesme, 2005.
  • Pripovijetke, 2005.
  • Sabrana djela Frana Galovića, 2006.
  • Drame I., 2007.

References
  1. Draško Ređep (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 130.
  2. Kadić 1960, p. 27.
  3. Baković 2018, p. 276.

Bibliography
  • Baković, Matijas (2018). "Nekrolozi povodom smrti Frana Galovića" [Fran Galović obituaries] (PDF). Hum (in Croatian). 13 (20): 275–288. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  • Kadić, Ante (1960). Contemporary Croatian Literature. Mouton.

Further reading
  • Dujmić, Dunja Detoni (1988). Fran Galović. Zavod za znanost o književnosti Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. ISBN 9788680279138.
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