About the author

About the author

The crucial role in my life was a twist of fate and my departure to Split where I studied.

Mira Šibenik, my piano professor, and Josip Mirošević, my professor of harmony and counterpoint, introduced me to the world of musical constellations of Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Chopin, Musorgski, Tchaikovsky, Wagner etc.

Živko Jeličić, a writer and academician, from the street Vlade Bagata 30, at the foot of the Marjan mountain in Split, played the most important role in my literary development. I was obsessed with the intellectuality of Miroslav Krleža. From the ‘literary waters’ of Krleža, whose work was introduced to me by Mehmed Džanić, my Serbo-Croatian teacher in the fourth grade of the Secondary School for Teacher Education in Bihać, I ‘sailed to the seas’ of Andrić, Kiš, Crnjanski, Selimović, Ćopić, then Dostoevsky, Lorca, Neruda, and finally to the great thoughts of Kafka, Tesla, and especially Goethe.

Having studied pedagogy, which is for me applied psychology, I was discovering the secrets of the human spirit.

And what did I discover? Unfortunately, I discovered that in the last centuries man has become worse and has walked away from what he really is – the son of God.