Colloquia Maruliana ..., Vol. 10 , 2001.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
Tin Ujević and Marko Marulić (the Diversity and Relevance of Tin's Marulological Writings and Fragments)
Srećko Lipovčan
Sažetak
The oeuvre of Tin Ujević contains a total of 18 writings or fragments in which Marko Marulić is mentioned, although only 12 of them are really relevant (in the others he is mentioned for the sake of others), two sonnets and ten prose items. They were written and printed in the period between 1910 and 1930. Reception of Ujević’s works to date has paid attention largely to the sonnets, and has almost totally neglected the prose. Looking at these writings as a thematic whole, and bearing in mind the state of the reception, it is the task of the paper to sort them typologically, describe them and show their contextual and functional characteristics. The pieces about Marulić in Ujević, the paper urges, are relevant examples of Marulić in the 20th century, an important locus for understanding Ujević’s thinking about the cultural tradition and contemporary reality and some of them are exemplary items of the great art shown in his poetry and prose.
An analysis of this thematic unit shows that the writings have a pronounced lyprogrammatic importance, and tell of the reality in which they were written and published, in line with the diverse intentions of the author, who passed through various phases of political belief in his public work, whether literary, journalistic or overtly political. From this point of view, 11 of the items could be sorted in to three groups, showing three period of Ujević’s intellectual development: the Croatian nationalism of a liberal Starčevićian nature (autumn 1910 to spring 1911); integral Yugoslavianism (January 1913) and a return to Croatian nationalism that Ujević believed to be compatible with the idea of the common Yugoslav state (spring 1914, summer and autumn 1915, spring 1930). The without doubt best known and most important, culturally and poetically speaking, sonnet, Farewell, is dealt with separately, outside this group, since it is not known when it was written. Its complex structure without doubt points to some boundary time, some important watershed in Ujević’s life and intellectual development. The paper shows that the sonnet cannot have been written the same year it was published (1914) as believed hitherto, and suggests an earlier time, the end of 1911, and the beginning of 1912.
The work devotes attention to the most relevant comments about Tin’s Marulićian work in scholarship and literary journalism. Distinctions are made between evaluations that seem correct and those that cannot be accepted. Finally, consideration of these works as a whole and research into their joint relationships confirms the idea that this is one of the most important Croatian literary oeuvres to reflect, in a way that is important for today too, the exceptional importance of Marko Marulić within the paradigm of Croatian culture as being concerned both with the heritage and yet open to European currents as well.
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8816
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Datum izdavanja:
22.4.2001.
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