The first part of the article deals with the problem of the reception accorded to the work of Stanislaw Przybyszewski in Croatian literature of the Modernistic period. The author exposes briefly the most important phases in Przybyszewski’s life and work, speaks about their echoes in Croatian literature of the period (translations, literary reviews, articles, essays, perfomances on Croatian stages, theatrical reviews, conlroversies about him belween the »Young« and the »Old«) and concludes that Przybyszewski, though far from being the best writer of Young Poland, was in Croatia at that time the most popular one. In the second part the author is concerned with the influence exerted by Przybyszewski on Croatian Modernists. This influence is most obvious in various ephemeral epigones of the older and younger Modernistic generation and in those writers who, in the Modernistic movement, were important as theoreticians and fighters, but whose literary work had soon fallen into obl'ivion; characteristic examples of V. Jelovšek and B. Drechsler-Vođnik are discussed in more detail. The only prominent Croatian writer influenced by Przybyszewski was J. Kosor, who was also the only Croatian Modernist who cultivated a long personal contact and Iriendship with him, but here this question is treated only so far as it is related to the period of Croatnan »Modema«, and, as a whole, it will be the subject of a separate study. The rather strong presence of S. Przybyszewski in the literature of Croatian »Moderna« can be explained by the fact that' his theoretical ideas, the fashionable character of his works and especially their style, which, in spite of being typically »modernistic«, was of high literary value, corresponded exactly to the taste of Croatian Modernists. Further, he was easily accessible to our reading public (his eaflier works vere even vritten in German and his Polish books were soon translated into German), he was clošely connected with the literary movement of Yqung Germahy and Young Scandinavia, which were of great interest to our Modernists, and firially, he played a leading part in the movement of Young Poland, especially iri its Cracow'circle, which had to face the same problems as our Croatian »Moderna«.
