Vjenceslav Novak

Vjenceslav Novak
Born	(1859-09-11)11 September 1859 Senj,Kingdom of Croatia,Austria-Hungary (nowSenj,Croatia)
Died	20 September 1905(1905-09-20)(aged 46) Zagreb,Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia,Austrian Empire (nowZagreb,Croatia)
Occupation(s)	playwright,poet

Vjenceslav Novak(11 September 1859 – 20 September 1905) was a CroatianRealistwriter,dramatist,andmusic historian.

Biography

Vjenceslav Novak grew up inSenj,where he graduated from elementary school and first two grades ofgymnasium,from which he would graduate inGospić.His father was ofCzechorigin. He moved to Senj before Vjenceslav was born to work as a merchant. He wanted this son to follow his footsteps, but business was of little interest to Vjenceslav.

Vjenceslav moved toZagrebafter graduating where he studied education in order to become a teacher. After finishing his studies, he moved back to Senj where he would spend the next two years working as a teacher. He later moved toPragueto study music, graduating in 1897. He returned to Zagreb that same year, where he taughtmusicology.Soon afterwards, he got a position as the main teacher at a gymnasium in Senj. Around this time, he experienced first symptoms oftuberculosis.

His literary career began in 1881. with a short story titledMaca( "The Cat" ). He wrote about many subjects, including: musical symposia,dramas,critiques,poems,short storiesandnovels.In 1888, he published a Croatian musicologytextbook.

Vjenceslav died on 20 September 1905 while preparing hismanuscriptfor printing.

Literary style

There are certain tropes inhibiting all of Vjenceslav's works. In his novels, he frequently portrays the existence and struggle of a working class who find themselves in all sorts of struggles. His prose was written during the realism literary movement in Croatia, depicting the people and society as it was in his time.

Works

• Novels:
  • Pavao Šegota
  • Pod Nehajem
  • Posljednji Stipančići(Matica hrvatska,1899, Agram)
  • Dva svijeta
  • Tito Dorčić
  • Nikola Baretić