The author approaches the work through the prism of archetypal criticism and sees it as a work that explores deep existential themes through an introspective narrative and symbolic structure, making it one of the key novels of Croatian modernist literatur
August Šenoa's historical novel, which was published in Vijenec in 1877, and was published as a book in 1878. The novel is subtitled "Historical Narrative XVI. century" so it can be seen as a historical monograph in the form of a novel.