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Lost Innocence of Narration: Lost Homeland by Slobodan Novak
Almir Bašović
; Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
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In this paper, a comparative analysis of Hektorović’s pastoral poem Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje (Fishing and Fishermen’s Conversation, 1568) and Novak’s short novel Izgubljeni zavičaj (Lost Homeland, 1955) reveals intertextual relations between a premodern and modern text in terms of changes with respect to genre, theme, plot, treatment of mimesis, literary devices and family and proprietary relationships. On the one hand, mimesis’ innocence as it was adopted in the Fishing gets scrutinized in the Lost Homeland, but the narrator, on the other hand, makes use of mimesis in the very moment when he is expected to take ownership of diegesis. Also, consensus over the truth and justice in Hektorović’s poem forms travelers’ bond on board, wheares Novak’s narrative universe is built precisely on lack of consensus when it comes to justice, ownership and truth. In fact, Novak’s narrator transposes problems of narrative responsibility onto proprietary relationships, and the latter are further transposed onto family relations. However, family relations are a misfit for resolving uncertainty because they are themselves disturbed, either by characters’ volition or circumstances. Therefore, this is how tension produced in Novak’ novel by uncertainty of narration typical of the novel as a genre is prolonged indefinitely. The novel is concluded with a parabole, a genre typical of pre-modern knowledge: in order to avoid a tragic destiny of another character, whose unusual fixation is paid dearly, the narrator opts for a permanent escape, leaving (yet another) generation of readers with a task of supplying meaning to the parable.
Ključne riječi
childhood; psychoanalytic criticism; mimesis; modernism; pastoral poetry
Hrčak ID:
316977
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Datum izdavanja:
8.5.2024.
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