Modernism, like every shift in literary style before it, was a revolution in its own right, of which the best confirmation can be found in works of literature that could not exist before this particular movement. By taking two literary works as examples, one from Croatia and one from a wider world literature, namely Milutin Cihlar Nehajev's Escape and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, as a pair of – if not the earliest than at the very least – representative works of a mature, fully developed modernism, that becomes evident by their characteristic features: the characters' psychological depth and nuance, by way of the unconscious, individual and impulsive; the subjective notion of time, beyond the scientific concept found in physics that is measurable in hours, but perceived and lived through differently by everyone; and in fact by a wider-ranging break from the strictly formed style of realism before it and other movements before that one, by embracing a stylistic pluralism, which in turn resulted in a previously unseen level of literary complexity and depth, and which could easily be considered a kind of culmination of literature as a form of expression, an apex which we still operate from, further explore and build upon.