Original scientific paper

From Bobočka to Filip

Velimir Visković ; The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography

Abstract

Bobočka, a prose fragment printed in the Hrvatska revija (1930, no 2) is usually interpreted in Krleža criticism as a fragment in which Krleža announces his novel The Return of Filip Latinovicz, which was to appear two years later in the Minerva edition of the writer’s collected works. In a comparison with the text in the journal with that which was published in the novel, the paper shows that at the moment he wrote the first published fragment, Krleža was most probably not in possession of any complete idea of this novel, and that this prose fragment in fact probably belonged to the body of Glembaj prose (later to appear in a separate book, The Glembays, prose). A comparative analysis of the narrative technique in that early fragment and that in the remainder of the novel tends to bear out this proposition. The second part of the paper analyses the structure of the novel, Krleža’s poetic ideas, his attitude to modernity in the fine arts and in literature, the opposition between nature and civilisation, the importance of the psychoanalytical approach and so on, concluding that the Krleža novel »functioned as one of the semantically most complex works in Croatian literature«.

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Hrčak ID:

72884

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72884

Publication date:

2.5.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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