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Ante Kovacic |
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6th June 1854 |
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Seou Oplaznik iznad Sutle, Croatia/Hrvatska |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Ante KovaÄić (June 6th, 1854 - March 10th, 1889) was a Croatian writer.
Born to a family of Croatian peasants, KovaÄić made his way through law school to become an attorney.
He began to write in 1875. While his early works have Romantic tendencies, in later years he was influenced by Realist literature. His stories and novels often had strong satiric overtones and represent harsh criticism to injustice in Croatian society of his time. One of his novels, Među žabari, remained unfinished because citizens of Karlovac, protested after reading its first paragraphs in a local newspaper.
The best known work of Ante KovaÄić is semi-autobiographic novel U registraturi. In it he expressed great deal of sympathy for common Croatian people, most notably peasants whom he saw as superior to snobbish citizenry.
KovaÄić was known as staunch supporter of Ante StarÄević and his Croatian Party of Rights. As such he was bitterly opposed to ban Ivan Mažuranić and wrote literal travesty of Mažuranić's poem Death of Smail-Aga ÄŒengić.
In his later years, KovaÄić began to show symptoms of mental illness which gradually affected his work, including the last chapters of U registraturi.
U registraturi nevertheless remained one of the most popular novels in Croatian history. In 1970s it was adapted into popular television mini-series starring Rade Šerbedžija.
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