Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.20471/dec.2019.55.02.07
A Review of Krleža’s Work in Light of Typology of the Characters and the Affinity for Addiction
Jasminka Matić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-4406
; Neuropsychiatric Hospital “Dr.Ivan Barbot”, Popovača, Croatia
Abstract
Krleža was blamed for misogyny [1] by some authors without any reason. The analysis of the subtle female psychology and sustained woman’s power in relation with male’s power, and ambivalence, is one of the biggest ode to female character recognized in his works. As an example for analysis and psychologi-cal review, an intimate tragedy, agony of Laura Lenbach and herrelation with two men lover as a hope, and husband, ex well-respected citizen, now just alcohol abuser and gambler without any character, supported by wife, is analyzed within the frame of tradition, gender-differentiated roles and responsibility in the socio-societal context of the 1920s, contemporary moment, and eternal actuality of Krleža’s work.
Keywords
woman’s nature; man’s culture; alcohol and other addictions; responsibility; socio-societal context
Hrčak ID:
228436
URI
Publication date:
16.12.2019.
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