Foreign literature in the »Smotra dalmatinska«

Abstract

One section of the newspaper »Smotra dalmatinska« was rich in presenting European and non-European literature. As a main source of information about literature (at least on the wide audience) it was an excellent supplement to the periodicals in Zadar at that time. Those periodicals were mostly oriented to Yugoslav literature. »Smotra« continued thirty years (In Zadar between 1888 and 1918) and it continously followed foreign literature, very intensively in the first two decades and less consistently in the later period. As in other Croatian periodicals and newspapers of the time, the most attention was given to the French literature, then Russian. English, American, Polish, Czech and Scandinavian literature. Hungarian, Italian, German, Bulgarian, Spanish and many others were also represented. There tire numerous translations and informative articles and the quality writes were represented. We find reprensentative European and American writes beginning with the period of romanticism (Pushkin, Goethe, Leopardi. Poe) trough realism and naturalism (Gogolj, Turgicniev, Tolstoy. Dostojevski, Zola, Daudet, Maupassant, Twain) to the turn of the century (Chehov. Gorki, Bouiget, Wilde, Stevenson, Maeterlinck, Ibsen).