Of Mate Raos (1931 – 1990) or the native complaining to Tin Ujević

Abstract

A fiction writer and novelist, short story writer and poet Mate Raos is a prematurely forgotten literary name. And when it is mentioned, this is done only in passing, without an insight into his interesting work, which is more recalled after his death than in his lifetime. In its first part, our paper deals with his short story writing and his novels, and the other part is about his poetry, with the emphasis on the intertextual dialogue with the native bard Tin Ujević and his anthological poem Visoki jablani (The tall poplar trees).