Professional paper
THE SEA IN LITERARY WORKS ZAČUĐENI SVATOVI (THE ASTONISHED WEDDING GUESTS) BY EUGEN KUMIČIĆ, PUSTO OGNJIŠTE (THE ABANDONED HOMES) BY VIKTOR CAR EMIN AND POSLJEDNJI STIPANČIĆI (THE LAST STIPANČIĆI'S) BY VJENCESLAV NOVAK
VJEKOSLAVA JURDANA
Abstract
This essay analyzes by a comparative study descriptions and presence of the sea in the novels of the three Croatian writers: Začuđeni svatovi (The Astonished Wedding Guests) by E. Kumičić (1883), Posljednji Stipančići (The Last Stipančići's) by V. Novak (1899) and Pusto ognjište (The Abandoned Homes) by V. C. Emin (1900). In all of the three novels we meet people, landscapes and small towns of the Croatian littoral, while the sea is a dynamic scene, described in all the seasons of the year, and it is also the metaphor for the human destinies. There are three families (Sabarić - Šimetić - Stipančić) with their destinies on the same space of the north Adriatic somewhere between Učka and Velebit. In creating the atmosphere and describing the inward experience of characters, the sea in this Trilogy has a quite important role. The crucial social and political circumstances of the time were described through the shipwrecks, which appear in all of the three novels. Various characters like seamen, captains, sailors, fishermen, maritime traffic and trade at the end of the 19th c. and the beginning of the 20th c, then various kind of boats - mainly the sailing boats, make a vivid picture linked to the life on the sea and the life from the sea. The sea, as a link and constant, makes of the three novels, which until recently were looked upon separately, a specific Blue Trilogy.
Keywords
THE SEA IN LITERARY WORKS; ZAČUĐENI SVATOVI (THE ASTONISHED WEDDING GUESTS); EUGEN KUMIČIĆ; PUSTO OGNJIŠTE (THE ABANDONED HOMES); VIKTOR CAR EMIN; POSLJEDNJI STIPANČIĆI (THE LAST STIPANČIĆI'S); VJENCESLAV NOVAK
Hrčak ID:
71317
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2002.
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