No, he has never missed boasting colleagues of the highest authority, famous admirers outside his homeland, in Italy, Austria, France, in almost all European countries - and yet it has remained that way: Miroslav Krleza, a Croatian poet of European standing, is still an undiscovered writer who has hardly been taken note of," writes Karl-Markus Gaus in 1988 in Die Zeit. The "Pannonian Giant" (Martin Gregor-Dellin), who died in 1981 at the age of patriarchs, has broken new ground in the more than forty volumes of his works of Yugoslavian literature: as a novelist, a poet, a playwright - and last but not least as a brilliant essayist, who pushed himself into the political debates of his time with violent, punishing anger and yet at the same time still managed to find his way into the world of Yugoslavia.