Ilija Jakovljević’s Literary Views

Ilija Jakovljević (1898-1948), hrvatski književnik, novinar i urednik, objavio je, uz ostalo, tijekom tridesetogodišnjeg književnog rada više teorijskih članaka o književnosti. U tim člancima razradio je svoja gledišta o smislu i zadaćama književnosti i književnika. Budući da je od 1915. do 1930. bio sudionik katoličkog pokreta među Hrvatima koji je započeo godine 1903. krčki biskup Antun Mahnić, svoja je spomenuta stajališta utemeljio na kršćanskoj philosophia perennis. U skladu s tim tražio je da književnost odgovara zahtjevu jedinstva istine, dobrote i ljepote, da bude autentičan iskaz kršćanskog života pisca koji teži svetosti, zahtijevao je da književnost služi narodnom životu, ali da umjetnička sloboda ostane neokrnjena ikakvim izvanjskim ideološkim tendencijama. Ovaj članak pruža temeljni uvid u spomenute Jakovljevićeve književne nazore.Ilija Jakovljević (1898-1948), a Croatian writer, a journalist and an editor had published during his thirty years of literary work, among other things, several theoretical articles about literature. In these articles he had worked out his opinions about the meaning and the tasks of literature and literary writers. Since he was, from 1915 to 1930, a participant of the Catholic Movement among Croats, which was initiated in 1903 by the Bishop of Krk, Antun Mahnić, he based his previously mentioned opinions on the Christian philosophia perennis. In accordance with this he demanded that the literature should adjust itself to a demand of unity of truth, goodness and beauty, be an authentic expression of Christian life of the writer seeking sanctity, as well as that the literature should serve the life of the people, but that the artistic freedom should not be spoilt by any external ideological tendencies. This article provides an insight into the already mentioned Jaovljević’s literary views