The person honored here is Antun Gustav Matoš, who lived from 1873 to 1914. He was a writer who covered a lot of different formats - poetry, short stories, journalism, and essays. Antun is considered the first Croatian to join the European modernist movement in writing. I wish I could easily tell you what that means; I'm basically concerned with getting the score right in my stories. But it's always nice to see writers saluted in any form.
This is a relatively rare photo of the monument in which no one is sitting next to him. There's a steady stream of tourists who like to sit next to him and pose for a photo. They have been doing so since the work was placed there in 1978.
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