Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh

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The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh (Croatian: Balade Petrice Kerempuha) is a philosophically poetic work by the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, composed in the form of thirty poems between December 1935 and March 1936.

The work spans a period of five centuries, focusing around the commoner prophet Petrica Kerempuh, who is a type of Croatian Till Eulenspiegel.^[1] It is written in the northern Croatian Kajkavian dialect.^[1]

Krleža did not typically write in Kajkavian, but decided to put the dialect into focus for the ballads.^[why?] Literary critics^[who?] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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The poem is generally considered^{[by whom?]} to be a masterpiece of Krleža's literary opus and of Croatian literature.^[2]

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.^[3]

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Balade Petrice Kerempuha