Summary
Miroslav Krleža.: Zagreb 1942.
After the "conflict on the left", Krleža remained isolated, moreover, ostracized like a leper because of his persistence in his own opinion - no matter how well-argued, and in the end truly correct. To continue to adhere to that opinion meant to confirm every written and spoken word, but also to endure that your close friends of yesterday turned their backs on you. On the other hand, despite the fact that at the top of the Endehash government - which burned his books ('gadaluk', 'mud', 'mockery', 'shame') - it was decided not to liquidate him, during the first half of the 1940s, Krleža feared that he would be slaughtered on his own initiative by a horde of drunken Ustashas. In these and such circumstances, when in 1942 Hitler occupied four-fifths of Europe, and there was no end in sight to the war and destruction, he wrote diary entries in the solitude of his Zagreb apartment, a selection of which we present here.
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