Young people, to show that they were not quite so young, started to laugh at him, and since there is nothing easier then becoming a megalomaniac on no basis whatsoever, Bitanga began to believe he was amusing.Įverything about him became ridiculous: shoes - regulary polished, teeth - never cleaned, nose - so modest in its demands that it didn't even need a handkerchief, two ears that were never cleaned in cold water Jest they became red nails - yellow, like those of all smokers, hair, short enough not to need combing, chin, beardless, and he didn't need to shave, and in short: everything about him was so inordinately usual that this very ordi nariness became quite out of the ordinary. Arriving at the university, he immediately made a great number of acquaintances: they introduced themselves to him, and he to them, for a !ark, and so the students hit on the fine idea of being witty, while Bitanga arrived at the still liner one of becoming a humorist. But in elementary and secondary schoolmates and teachers. It was only his father who recently had it changed, to Bosnić, when he became a Principal, somewhere in Gorski Kotar.
Like despair from damnation, the flame of resistance.īitanga is not a pseudonym. Short was my era, too soon the soul died Įarly came death, like my impetuous passion įrom the dead grave runs the cry, condemnatory its sound He died at the age of 24 in Barcelona and was buried at the hospital cemetery near Hospital de la Santa Creu. Because of that he earned the reputation of one of the greatest rebels and iconoclasts in the history of Croatian culture. Kamov's novel, invariably described as the premier Croatian avant-garde major work of prose, was printed for the first time in 1956. His masterwork is a modernist novel Isušena kaljuža (1906-1909) which is saturated with psychosexual and spiritual conflicts of the iconoclastic first-person narrator and later described as a proto-existentialist prose, written decades before the literary movement's appearance. His literary work was very significant, because in his poems and plays he expressed his anger and displeasure regarding the hypocrisy and injustice of his contemporaries in a way unprecedented in Croatian literature.
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