SOURCE: A review of The Return of Philip Latinovicz, in Saturday Review, Vol. 52, No. 46, November 15, 1969, p. 48.

In the following review, Mihailovich discusses the themes in The Return of Philip Latinovicz, lamenting Krleza's lack of recognition by readers in the West.

Paris had its Balzac and Zola, Dublin its Joyce, and Croatia has its Miroslav Krleza. Many of his works deal with the tribulations of the Croats under the ungainly Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is one of the two leading Yugoslav writers today (the other is Ivo Andric), a distinction he won almost half a century ago with the short-story collection Croatian God Mars [Hrvatski bog mars]. His other major works include the plays In Agony [U agoniji] and Aretheus [Aretej] and the novels On the Edge of Reason, Banquet in Blitvia [Banket u Blitvi] and The Banners [Zastave].

The Return of Philip Latinovicz, Krleza's first novel, was published in...