Simo Matavulj

Simo Matavulj, Cyrillic Симо Матавуљ ( born September 14, 1852 in Šibenik, † February 20, 1908 in Belgrade ) was a Serbian writer.

Biography

Matavulj came from the Dalmatian coast land that was inhabited by Catholic and Orthodox faith. He therefore knew both milieus well. Matavulj stayed for a time in the Krupa monastery, the center of Orthodoxy in Dalmatia, on.

Simo Matavulj is one of the most important authors of the Serbian realism. He described the Dalmatian and Montenegrin Littoral, Montenegro and Belgrade and its inhabitants with humor and irony. The old society is critically examined.

As a major work or as a key work of the Serbian realism applies the novel Bakonja questions Brne, in which the author tries to give a panorama of the entire Dalmatian life. It reflects their own experiences Matavuljs it, although he can play the action in a Catholic Franciscan monastery. It describes the development of a boy who grows up in a monastery and is gradually monk, although he is not suited to. In the end, he maintains, like all other monks also a relationship with a woman. It has Matavulj called because of its critical and humorous presentation as " Serbian Rabelais ."

Works

• Pošljednji vitezovi - The last knight, portrays the disintegration of the old patrician world
• Dogadjaji u Seocu - events in Seoce
• Ljudi i Prilike - People and relationships
• Novi svijet u starom Rozopeku - New World in ancient Rozopek
• Ljudi i Prilike u Gulinu - People and relationships in Gulin
• Bakonja questions Brne, Roman 1892 ( German His glory Frater Brne, 1979)
• Zavjet, drama 1897
• Uskok, 1902
• Car Duklijan, 1918
• Iz raznijeh krajeva, stories 1923
• Izabrane pripovijetke, 1947
• Sabrana dela 7 vols 1953-54
• Odabrana dela, 2 vols 1962