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Author(s): Tomislav Vidošević
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Croatian Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Croatia; Central Europe; interwar period 1918–1939; Julije Benešić
Summary/Abstract: Julije Benešić (1883–1957) was a Croatian writer, essayist, translator and, in the interwar period, a cultural activist and emissary of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to Poland, where he, among other activities, he taught the first Croatian language course at the University of Warsaw. To this day he remains the most prolific translator of Polish literature into Croatian. The papers comprising this volume are based on presentations given at a conference commemorating Benešić, but are not mere reminiscences. They put the life and work of Benešić, as well as his entire generation, in the perspective of the cultural exchange taking place in Central Europe since the times of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The aim of the articles presented in the monograph is to analyse the changes in cultural and social practices that occurred in the area after 1918. No culture exists in a vacuum, and in the case of the polycentric states of interwar Central Europe the question about directions of cultural transfers seems crucial.

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