In the period around World War I, he was politically engaged as a Yugoslav nationalist, but after the war became disillusioned, leaving politics to devote himself to literature as a professional writer and translator.
U razdoblju oko I. svjetskog rata bio je politički angažiran kao jugoslavenski nacionalist, ali je nakon rata, razočaran, napustio politiku i posvetio se književnosti kao profesionalni pisac i prevoditelj.