Storytellers from Bosnia have held a special place in Croatian literature, from the time of the medieval Franciscans to the Muslim religious poets. With an afterword by Miroslav Vaupotić entitled "Storytellers of the Bosnian Village".
This work is considered to be Andrić's best composed work, precisely because of the narrative process in which he presented the story in a ring structure, i.e. in the work, the stories are told one inside the other. The characters are complex and layered,
Vladimir Nazor left behind a diverse body of work that intertwines myth, nature, patriotism, and humanism. Nazor is a poet of freedom, nature, and the people – a bridge between modernity and tradition, romanticism and realism, childhood and revolution.