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The Spray of Fear as a Source of Trauma in the Novel Potato's Soul by Rade Jarak
Snežana Milojević
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Sažetak
This study of a presentation of trauma is based on the novel Potato’s soul by Rade Jarak. Within the time frame of this narative (a day in Dubrovnik in 1949) the informed reader encounters a recontextualisation of the tekst by James Joyce, Miroslav Krleža, Ivan Gundulić, and one hero of this context is the poet Darmolatov, a literary character of Danilo Kiš. Mirko Bradarić, descendent of a Dubrovnik aristocratic familiy who rezonates turbulent historical events, tends to use correct analytic, dissecting of reality which he rationalizes trough American comic book heroes due to his lack of personal experience. Although completely unclear and fluid in its rules and criteria, reality is frightening, which is exactly why the intradiegetic narrator Mirko Bradarić can only describe evil, delusions and fear, while trauma results from four sources: the executions of the communist court martial (Passion at Daksa), imprisonment of the disobedient (the island Goli otok), the terror of the media and aggressive communist propaganda and finally connotations and denotations of personal ponderings on love and beauty. The house (home) is an image where happiness and tranquility are absent from, and its inhabitants are representatives of certain parts of idological illusions. This transgeneration, transgressive play of discourse had its stage adaptation, and this adaptation of the novel for the stage will be dealt with in the part of transmedia bounds.
Ključne riječi
evil; fear; intertextuality; intermedia interpretation; transmedia interpretation
Hrčak ID:
330785
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Datum izdavanja:
14.5.2025.
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