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Matos Antun Gustav
(1873—1914)

Antun Gustav Matoš completed seven years of high school in Zagreb and paralelly learned to play the violoncello. He spent a year studying at the Military-Veterinary Institute in Vienna, and was afterwards sent to the army from where he deserted in 1894. He was sent to prison to the fortress of Petrovaradin, and he also escaped from there: he had to live abroad for 13 years and spent this time grieving for his homeland. He made his living there by playing, by writing for Croatian newspapers and journals. After being pardoned he came back to Zagreb in 1908. Though he sat for and passed the exam qualifying him for the post of teacher, he was unable to get a clarical post due to the fact that he was an oppositionist and member of the Croatian Party of Right, so he had to make his living by writing. He was witty cynical, with a tendency for the unusual and bizzare in the choice of themes for his stories. By such distinctive language Matoš has created a literary opus that, in the period of the Croatian Literary Modernism, can be ranked way above any literary productions in Croatia so far.

Croatia, 1998, Antun Gustav Matos

Yugoslavia, 1965, Antun Gustav Matos