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The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh

1935–1936 poetry book by Miroslav Krleža

Field	Value
name	The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh
title_orig	Balade Petrice Kerempuha
image	Balade_Petrice_Kerempuha.jpg
caption	Cover of the first edition
author	Miroslav Krleža
country	Croatia
language	Kajkavian
genre	poetry, philosophy
publisher	S. Škerl
release_date	1936
media_type	Hardcover, paperback

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh () is a philosophically poetic work by the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, comprising thirty poems published between December 1935 and March 1936.

Overview

The work spans a period of five centuries, focusing around the commoner prophet Petrica Kerempuh, who is a type of Croatian Till Eulenspiegel. It is written in the northern Croatian Kajkavian dialect.

Krleža did not typically write in Kajkavian, but decided to put the dialect into focus for the ballads. Literary critics argue that he succeeded in showing that — even if in his time Kajkavian was not used in formal domains of life — it was still possible to create a work of great literal expression in it and that the Kajkavian dialect was not a less valuable literary language.

Plot

Legacy

The poem is generally considered to be a masterpiece of Krleža's literary opus and of Croatian literature.

The Ballads have been translated (mostly only in part) into Slovene, Italian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Czech, French, Russian, and Arabic. A full German translation was published in 2016.

References

(1994). "James Daniel Armstrong: In Memoriam". Slavica Publishers.
"BALADE PETRICE KEREMPUHA". Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža.
(10 July 2016). "BALADE PETRICE KEREMPUHA 'Katkad mi se čini da Krleža lakše diše u njemačkom nego u kajkavskom'". [[Jutarnji list]].

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