T 1 Rodna kuća Anke Petričević – Lovreć / The house in Lovreć in which Anka

TIN UJEVIĆ se rodio u Vrgorcu 5. srpnja 1891. godine. Njegovo puno ime bilo je Augustin Josip Ujević, po starom običaju župe imotskih Poljica gdje su svoj krštenoj djeci davana dva imena. Njegov otac, Ivan Ujević, bio je učitelj rodom iz Krivodola, dok mu je majka Bračanka iz mjesta Milne. Tin je rođen kao jedno od petero djece.. Tin je prva tri razreda osnovne škole polazio u Imotskom te seli u Makarsku gdje završava osnovnoškolsko obrazovanje. Godine 1902. odlazi u Split, upisuje se u klasičnu gimnaziju i živi u nadbiskupijskom sjemeništu. 1909. godine Tin maturira s odličnim uspjehom, odriče se mogućnosti zaređenja te odlazi u Zagreb gdje upisuje studij hrvatskog jezika i književnosti, klasične filologije, filozofije i estetike na Filozofskom fakultetu. Te iste godine objavio je svoj prvi sonet "Za novim vidicima" u časopisu "Mlada Hrvatska".Prve dvije zbirke pjesama, “Lelek sebra” (1920.) i “Kolajna” (1926.) napisao je tijekom rata u Parizu kao jedinstvenu zbirku; samovoljom nakladnika razdvojene su i tiskane u Beogradu, i to ćirilicom i ekavicom. Izlazak druge zbirke dočekao je s iznenađenjem i nezadovoljstvom. Do Drugoga svjetskog rata objavio je zbirku “Auto na korzu” (1932.) i reprezentativni izbor svoga pjesništva “Ojađeno zvono” (1933.). Komunističke vlasti zabranile su mu 1945. javno djelovanje, pa je nekoliko godina živio kao anonimni prevoditelj. Tek izabranim pjesmama “Rukovet” (1950.), zaslugom Jure Kaštelana, koji ju je i priredio, Ujević se otkriva novom naraštaju čitatelja, da bi posljednjom zbirkom “Žedan kamen na studencu” (1954.) potvrdio vodeće mjesto u hrvatskom pjesništvu. Osobenjačkim načinom života skrivao je tajnu svoje intimnosti, pa je godinama bio u središtu pozornosti posjetitelja boemskih kavana i gostionica u Beogradu, Sarajevu, Splitu i Zagrebu, gdje je, tim redom, proveo sve godine života od povratka iz Pariza 1919. do smrti.

Ujević je, kao nedostižni čarobnjak riječi, ostao dosljedno izvan svih književnih škola i struja, blizak svima a istodobno različit od svih…

Bogatstvo duha, dubinu misaonih podviga, enciklopedijsku širinu tematskih interesa i solidnu obaviještenost o problemima kulture i umjetnosti: sve te osobine svoga intelekta obilno je rasuo i na nekoliko tisuća stranica književnokritičke i teorijske, esejističke, polemičke, feljtonističke, znanstveno-popularne i političkopublicističke proze, razbacane u stotinama publikacija, a reprezentativni izbor njegovih književnih studija i eseja ušao je u knjige “Ljudi za vratima gostionice” i “Skalpel kaosa” (obje 1938.). U njima se na specifični ujevićevski način sretno prožimlju osobne ispovijesti autobiografskog karaktera i bizarnost vlastitih stajališta o mnogim načelnim i praktičnim pitanjima umjetnosti, egzaktna povijesno-biografijska dokumentacija i lucidnost individualnog poniranja u stilskom jedinstvu pjesničke riječi. Čitajući njegovu poeziju, prizivamo u sjećanje dijelove njegovih eseja; no teško bismo mogli govoriti o njegovim esejima a da ne potražimo oslonac u njegovoj poeziji. Umro je u Zagrebu 12.studenog 1955.

Tin Ujević was born in Vrgorac on 5th July 1891. His full name was Agustin Josip Ujević, according to an old custom of the parish of Poljica where baptized infants would get two names. His father, teacher Ivan Ujević, was from Krivodol and his mother was from Milna on the island of Brač. Tin was one of their five children. He completed the first three grades of elementary school in Imotski and later he moved to Makarska where he finshed his basic education. In 1902 he went to Classical Gymnasium in Split and lived in a seminary. In 1909 he graduates with honours, waives the opportunity of ordination and leaves for Zagreb where he undertakes studies of Croatian language and Literature, Classical Philology, Philosophy and Aesthetichs at the Faculty of Philosophy. During the same year he published his first sonnet “Za novim vidicima” (For New Horizons) which appeared in the journal “Mlada Hrvatska” (Young Croatia). During the war he was in Paris where he wrote his first collections, “Lelek srebra” (Cry of a Slave) (1920) and “Kolajna” (Necklace) (1926). He wrote them as one collection but the editor separated them and published them in Belgrade in the Cyrilliac alphabet and in ekavian. When the second book came out, he was surprised and displeased. By World War II he had published a collection “Auto na korzu” (Car on the Promenade) (1932) and his collected works “Ojađeno zvono” (Heavy-hearted Bell) (1933).The communist government banned him from public actions so for a few years he lived as an anonymous translator. A new generation of readers discovered Tin after another famous Croatian poet, Jure Kaštelan, had chosen and prepared a collection of Tin’s works. His last collection “Žedan kamen na studencu” (Thirsty Stone at the Wellspring) (1954) affirmed him as one of the greatest Croatian poets. After his return from Paris in 1919 he lived in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Split and Zagreb where he visited Bohemian cafés and taverns drawing attention with his distinctive way of life.

Ujević didn’t belong to any style or school in literature, he was close to everybody and, at the same time, different from anybody else…

The richness of spirit, the depth of thought, the vastness of interest and the understanding of problems in culture and art: he spread all these characteristics of his intellect on thousands of pages of literary criticism, theoretical pages, essays, polemics, feuiletons, scientific works and non-fiction scattered in hundreds of editions. The representative part of his literature studies and papers become parts of books “Ljudi za vratiima gostionice” (People behind Inn Doors) and “Skalpel kaosa” (Scalpel of Chaos), both published in 1938. They merge personal autobiographical confessions with bizarre opinions about many issues in art and biographical documentation with the lucidity of the stylistic unity of words in his own specific way. Reading his poetry, we recall parts of his essays; but we can hardly talk about his essays without finding the support in his poetry. He died in Zagreb on 12 November 1955.