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https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.68.4
NARRATION AS A MANIFESTATION OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN – READING NOVELLAS BY SLOBODAN NOVAK
Ivan Majić
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In the narrative oeuvre of Slobodan Novak, shorter pieces of fiction, novellas and short stories play an important part. Despite diversity of narrative procedures, themes and the ways in which Novak constructs the story, in his novellas one can notice the positioning of the narrative protagonist on the edge of the diegetic space. Be it listening ("Badessa madre Antonia", "The Hard City"), absent thinking ("Southern thoughts", "A need to die logically"), associative and oneirically intoned narration ("To live for our own cause"), whether the protagonist is i a participant ("Eviction") or the observer, what is common in his prose is a preference for a superfluous subject whose existence opens up a need for a story ("Obligation to think for oneself"). The paper will analyze precisely this inauguration of the superfluous subject as a narrative generator of the story itself, which often obscures the story with silence, whether he is engaged in observing, thinking, listening or 'talking about the unimportant'. In different contexts such as childhood, the island, the city, historical events and upheavals, Novak's superfluous subject, be it a narrator or a character, or a number of characters, offers a critically and ironically intoned narration that remains both demanding of and ambiguous in iboth in nterpretation and reader's engagement.
Ključne riječi
storytelling; Slobodan Novak; novella; redundant subject; silence
Hrčak ID:
325634
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Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2024.
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