Симо Матавуљ и Марко Цар
Simo Matavulj and Marko Car

Summary/Abstract: The study analyzes the friendship and cooperation of Simo Matavulj (1852-1908) and Marko Car (1859-1953). It was pointed to their acquaintance in Herceg Novi imme diately after Matavulj’s arrival in this city in 1874, and with the mediation of their mutual friend Toma K. Popović (1853-1931). They later described their years of bachelorhood, when Matavulj lived in Herceg Novi and worked as a teacher at the Pomorska school in Serbia from 1874 to 1881. The intensive contacts and close relations between Matavulj and Marko Car continued at the time of Matavulj’s stay and work in Cetinje (1881-1889), that after Matavulj’s relocation to Belgrade (1889-1908) these contacts were continued, but with one move away happened after Car’s critical text about Matavulj’s narrative work published in Mostars’ Zora in 1896. Later, this misunderstanding was over, and their last meeting took place in Šibenik in the spring of 1906, during Matavulj’s stay in his hometown. The contact links of the two writers and friends were investigated through preserved private correspondence, as well as through saved private correspondence abo ut Matavulj, among which we especially emphasize the autobiographical intonation record S. Matavulj in Herceg-Novi, which originated after Matavulj’s death in 1908, and was published in the Letopis Matice srpske in 1909. It was also pointed out on the literary analogies between some of Matavulj’s and Car’s narrative, and especially travel texts.

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