Croatian Studies Review, Vol. 7 No. 1, 2011.
Review article
The Mediterranean Heritage in Nazor‘s Novel The Shepherd Loda (Pastir Loda)
Zvjezdana Rados
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zadar
Abstract
In writing a historical novel about “Brač – an island with no histoy”,
Nazor starts from the premise that the “true history of the people and
their region” actually lies within themselves. That is why he searches
for the traces of past times in a local man in whom he recognizes covert
layers of archaic Croatian Mediterranean heritage and the deep roots
of various Mediterranean traditions and cultures – from those of Greek
and Roman and Early Christian and pagan Slavic to Christian Croatian,
Venetian, and other cultures. The main character of the novel – faun
Brah/shepherd Loda – is witness to and participant in a two-thousandyear
history of the island of Brač (and of Croatia and the Slavic and
Mediterranean worlds), which has accumulated in him and formed him
into the Croat – the Slav – the “Mediterranean of the old breed”.
Keywords
Nazor; novel; the Mediterranean; heritage
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86388
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Publication date:
15.10.2011.
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