Original scientific paper

REMEMBRANCE AND MEMORY IN THE EXAMPLES OF FELDMAN'S RABBIT AND KRLEŽA'S GALICIA

Almir Bašović ; Faculty of philosophy in Sarajevo

Abstract

This paper focuses on remembrance and memory in the examples of two Croatian dramas about the World War I, namely Miroslav Feldman's Rabbit and Miroslav Krleža's Galicia. The phenomena of remembrance and memory are understood in the sense of Aleida and Jan Assmann's work, so remembrance is understood as subjective, individual, psychological phenomenon, and memory as a phenomenon that has been collectively shaped. The paper shows that the relationship between those two phenomena, as understood by Assmanns, can be treated in accordance with the dramatic logic. In Feldman's drama, which is built as “transformation” of rabbit into the dramatis personae, we see how the Captain's remembrance has the importance for defining of the genre, while Krleža's drama is built around remembrance of Horvat, the central character. The paper then focuses on presenting certain similarities between these dramas, which are both based on some characteristics of cultural memory in relation to the history. The implications about the absence of the enemy from the plays that deal with war are drawn in the end and the attention is brought to the fact that the drama as a form lives from tensions and that the conflict always leads drama towards its end.

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Hrčak ID:

138998

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/138998

Publication date:

30.4.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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