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https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.68.5
NEW READINGS AND REFLECTIONS ON TEXTUAL STUDIES OF SLOBODAN NOVAK'S NOVEL "GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH" ("MIRISI, ZLATO I TAMJAN", 1968)
Monika Batur
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The symposium’s headline slogan in honor of Novak’s 100th birthday, "Dalje treba misliti" (which can be translated as "You have to think further"), understood as a guiding thread of Novak’s poetics, is reflected throughout his ouvre on multiple levels – intellectual, thematic, and formal. This paper will propose that this idea is also manifested in author's resistance to creating final versions of his texts, leading to a phenomenon of non-finalization, or non-conformity in his literary works. This is particularly evident in Novak’s repeated revisions of the novel "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh" ("Mirisi, zlato i tamjan", 1968), as illustrated by differences between various published editions of the same novel. The notion of a text as something continually revised (regardless of its form in any given published edition) and the perception of writing as an open-ended creative process striving for freedom – even beyond the limits of a single edition – are presented as the central ideas of this paper. "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh" serves as a representative example of a poetics where the pursuit of freedom unfolds on multiple levels: in narrative structure, character development, symbolism, aesthetics, and in this conceptual approach to revision and the idea of "completion through incompletion". The methodological and conceptual affinity of this work can be seen in approaches such as genetic criticism and the theory of the fluid text, among others. The research corpus consists of individual editions of the novel "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh", where textual differences can be observed. Using a textological-bibliographic approach, with methods of informative reading in the first phase and close and comparative reading in the second phase, text strings are created, which serve as the fundamental units of analysis in this study. In addition to the research component, the issues of accessing the novel with modifications and determining the boundaries of the text are also explored.
Ključne riječi
Slobodan Novak; "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh"; textual studies; fluid text
Hrčak ID:
325637
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2024.
Posjeta: 11 *