Abstract

The paper analyzes the unpublished diary entries of the judge, diplomat and writer Petar Odavic, kept at larger or smaller intervals for more than sixty years (1886-1947). The insufficiently known experiences, points of view and knowledge of a high-ranking, albeit disputed in society, intellectual on issues that were important for the national existence of the Serbs and their country are illuminated; attitude towards the Obrenovics, the Serbian question, the Balkan Wars, the First World War, political relations in the Yugoslav state, Serbian-Croatian relations, artistic creativity as an expression of contradictions in Yugoslav society, the role of the Roman Catholic Church.

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