Original scientific paper

LIFE AS A BEAST – MOTIFS OF ESCAPE IN JOSIP KOSOR’S SHORT PROSE

Ana Batinić orcid.org/0000-0002-0007-1015 ; Division for the History of Croatian Literature of the The Institute for the History of Croatian Literature, Theater and Music

Abstract

The paper detects and analyzes different manifestations of escape motifs in Josip Kosor’s short prose. Apart from passion as a dominant motif in Kosor’s opus, the characters of his short prose are usually connected to a kind of movement, change, travel or escape, which in the space of a literary text can appear either physically or imaginary, as an escapist retreat to imagination, daydreaming, social isolation or art. In regards to the autobiographical elements in Kosor’s work, the characters of fugitives, vagabonds, rebels, day-dreamers and bohemians can be related to the author’s own turbulent life.

Keywords

Josip Kosor; short prose; the motif of escape; escapism; departure; journey

Hrčak ID:

141647

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141647

Publication date:

30.6.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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