Cilj je ovoga rada prikazati život i stvaralaštvo Eugena Kumičića s naglaskom na propitkivanje pripadnosti epohi naturalizma te kritiku gradskoga života. Riječ je o piscu koji se po domoljublju izdvajao iz sredine u kojoj je odrastao, a koji je s njom srastao u ljepotama njezina pejsaža koji se odrazio na njegov sanjalački duh. Upravo su njegovo porijeklo, političko opredjeljenje i odlazak u Europu, u Pariz, najviše utjecali na njegov osobni, ali i književni put. Opredijelivši se u ovom radu za analizu društvene tematike, točnije, za kritiku grada i gradskoga života u djelu Eugena Kumičića, pozornost je obraćena na strukturu književnoga djela, karakterizaciju likova, fabulu te sličnosti i različitosti u tom dijelu njegova opusa te njegovo uklapanje u tadašnju književnu sliku Hrvatske i Europe

Aim of this work was to present the life and works of Eugen Kumičić with the emphasis on rethinking his affiliation to the epoch of naturalism and criticism of the urban life. He is an author who, according to his patriotism, stood out from the milieu in which he grew up, but with which he meets in the beauty of its landscape which influenced his dreamy soul. It was his origin, political commitment and his going to Europe, to Paris, that affected mostly on his personal, but also his literary path. Due to deciding for the analysis of the social topics, more precisely, for criticism of the city and the urban life in the works of Eugen Kumičić, the attention was drawn to the structure of literary work, characterization of character, fable and similarities and differences in that part of his opus and his fitting in the frames of Croatian and European literary of that period.