"DEMONIC, CLAIRVOYANT, POETIC RAPTURE," BY A GREAT WRITER MIROSLAV KRLEŽA

To link the themes of late epochs in literature in this region, which are at enormous historical discrepancy with the continuity of the expected sequence of dominant epochs and authors, (from romanticism, through realism and naturalism, to symbolism and expressionism, very important directions for the development of contemporary art), it required a very broad knowledge of all that was going on in European and world business. Miroslav Krleža (1893-1981) did not have many choices regarding his local predecessors as creators, but he carefully selected European role models as contemporaries, while following developments in world literature. It is this "disorder" in the order of literary directions that occurs in the overall creation of this author that will characterize him as a great artist in the written word, who does not slave by constraints but creates by intuition, but inserts in the text his own reproduction of the problems that surround him and which are current. Krleža had to systematically select models and, in his artistic background, offer texts that mate with the most representative works from this period, which in their final form were completely followed by avant-garde aspirations in literary creation. The desperation of the fate of a nation whose fate is marked by tragic events and whose future is a vain hope of a past without desires and needs, has opened, to this great writer, new avenues for creation. Reality is both experienced and portrayed in a whole new way, the writer tends to enter the consciousness of man and come to terms with his intimacy. His characters go beyond stereotypes and classifications. They clash and fight within their urges and aspirations for a more harmonious future, and give the work its undivided human significance, "The Black Word" is a normal, ordinary word for Krleža, as well as for many modern European writers, especially those who treat war-related subjects for, to express the horror of war is to be brutal, strong, with unveiled elements of dread. Each new event or appearance of a new personality predisposes a form that is skillfully incorporated into an exhibition of unusually combined and desperately credible black paintings and representations. Krable's works last through epochs, because they are predisposed by the constant of tragedy and suffering, both of man as an individual and of humanity. Within stylistic diversity, Krleža's thought developed and identified with events that she described herself. The universality of themes and motives of his works that last through epochs is recognizable in different human destinies, determined by the category of existence through suffering, fear and eternal uncertainty.