Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 37 No. 1, 2011.
Original scientific paper
Memory, Remembrance, Identity – Split in the Work of Veljko Barbieri
Ivan Bošković
orcid.org/0000-0001-7649-9360
; Faculty of philosophy in Split
Abstract
The city of Split can be proud of the fact that ever since its early history and its earliest memories, it has served as a very eloquent literary quote. It has been remembered as a big riddle, but also as a big historical joke, as a palimpsest, »a temple of memories«, the city of books and the book-city or »city-by-accident«, with an inexhaustible local character visible in the local idiom such as, London is nothing in comparison to Split (Ča je pusta Londra), Money can’t buy it (Tko to može platit) or in a more modern one, Nothing against Split (Ništa kontra Splita). This paper analyzes the strategies of memories and remembering which mediate the picture of Barbieri’s old city, stressing Diocletian’s palace, the Sphinx, streets, Eros and food as the landmarks of its urban identification and recognition.
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Publication date:
3.5.2011.
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