Janko Polić Kamov

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Janko Polić Kamov


Born
in Rijeka, Croatia
November 17, 1886

Died
August 19, 1910

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Rebellious by nature, he was expelled from Rijeka high school and dropped out of the school in Zagreb. Because of his participation in the demonstration against the Hungarian governor in Croatia, Khuen-Héderváry, he was sentenced to three months in prison in 1903. Headstrong and temperamental, he called himself Kamov, after Ham (or Kam) from the Old Testament, who saw his father Noah naked but unlike his siblings Shem and Japhet did not cover his nakedness, thus issuing a curse. Kamov probably saw himself as a revealer of bourgeoise hypocrisy and wrote to his brother Vladimir in 1910 - "Kamov to me is a literary program..."
His literary work was small, but very significant, because in his poems and plays he expressed his anger and displeasur
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Isušena kaljuža

4.03 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1957 — 10 editions
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Pjesme i novele

4.37 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Psovka

4.61 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1907 — 4 editions
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Ištipana hartija

4.54 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1907 — 2 editions
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Tragedija mozgova

4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2007
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Ispovijest heroja naših dan...

4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2010
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Pobunjeni pjesnik

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Mamino srce

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Pjesme, lakrdije i novele

4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Selected Short Stories and ...

4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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“Ući u balon? Nije li u tome sve? Sunovratiti se u - nebo? Zašto ostati čovjek? Zašto ne biti planet? Zašto ne možemo padati - gore?”
Janko Polić Kamov, Isušena kaljuža

“Znao sam stajati na ulici i gledati u mnoštvo, kako se klanja, prolazi, kicoši i previja, i najodurniji mi postadoše ljudi uredni, lijepi i elegantni. "Sve je to pomada, karmin i parfem: parfem za naš njuh, karmin za naš vid, a pomada za opip..." Najantipatičniji mi postadoše mladići; ja sam zaljubljivanje protegao na mladost, glupost i brčiće. Koketiranje mi postade nešto slična karikiranom majmunu, ljubav karikirano koketiranje, a zabave, šetnje i plesovi karikature karikatura. Naprotiv sam zavolio bradate ljude, i sretajući ih pokadšto, ja bih se razmiljio i unježio, kao da sam našao srodnu i plemenitu dušu.
Ne. Ja nijesam bio normalan.”
Janko Polić Kamov, Pjesme i novele

“Ne niče li to ideja? Misli? Mrmore, sukobljuju se, prepiru i ljube i opet množe u beskraj, u vječnost ko živa bića.”
Janko Polić Kamov, Drame