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https://doi.org/10.21857/mwo1vc3zpy
Jelčić’s Diary from September to September 1989 – 1990
Ana Lederer
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zavod za povijest hrvatske književnosti, kazališta i glazbe, Odsjek za povijest hrvatskog kazališta, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Envious by scope and importance, the oeuvre of Croatian literary historian, writer, publicist, critic and politician Dubravko Jelčić, an author who tried his hand at different genres with ease, his Diary from September to September 1989 – 1990, published in 1991, stands out. Having decided to write the diary on August 31, 1989, as he himself emphasized in the introduction, with a premonition and expectation that „events that will determine our life and our destiny“ will take place in the next twelve months. Jelčić, therefor, from his own point of view intended to comment on the events of a historically rough time, wondering at the same time to what extent a diary writer can be open about his private and intimate matters and, ultimately, how much sense writing a diary makes at all. Covering the year of the collapse of communism in Europe and in our country, he clearly and openly expressses his views as well as his attitude towards accelerated events, but discreetly also his intimate thoughts. With his diary, Jelčić is a chronicler of events and the atmosphere of the historical, political and cultural context of a period, but who at the same time reveals himself through the articulation of his views and opinions as a homo politicus, which he was after all-in-one period of his fruitful professional path and in a way also announces a few his later nonficton books. Reading the Diary today, the position of culture in that time is particulary interesting, of course, in the way the author himself experiences it and participates in it.
Ključne riječi
Croatian diary prose; autobiography; politics and literature; culture and reality; history of Croatian literature
Hrčak ID:
314277
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Datum izdavanja:
9.2.2024.
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