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Two collections by Croatian poet Marijan Matijašević, ranging from landscapes of his native region and social concerns to intimate poems of anxiety, pain and solitude.
Marijan Matijašević’s Selected Works brings together two poetry collections: I licu gnjevnom (1936) and Nemir samoće (1941). Read side by side, they show how the relationship between the world outside and the life of the mind changes in the work of this Croatian poet from Aljmaš.
In I licu gnjevnom, scenes of his native region and landscapes at night give shape to the speaker’s moods. Other poems turn from nature to social concerns. This shift is particularly clear in the cycle Bolnička aleja, where attention to social conditions occasionally takes a satirical turn.
In Nemir samoće, anxiety, pain and solitude move to the foreground. Matijašević often starts with small, everyday details, while his poems about death take on a more forceful, at times Expressionist tone. Edited by Dubravko Horvatić, the Vinkovci edition places these two sides of his poetry in a single volume.
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