Original scientific paper

The Zrinski-Frankopan plot in Croatian novel

Hrvoje Lončarević orcid.org/0000-0003-3639-7727 ; Journal "Hrvatsko slovo"

Abstract

The article deals with the Zrinski-Frankopan plot presented in three novels: Urota zrinsko-frankopanska (The Zrinski-Frankopan Plot) by Eugen Kumičić, Hrvatska nad ponorima (Croatia above Abysses) by Virgil Kurbel, and Zlatna vuga (Golden Oriole) by Višnja Stahuljak. In three major units the author of the article tries to elaborate each novel and point out its features, primarily having in mind the steadiness of conceptual layer. Each author of the novels recognized the case of Zrinski-Frankopan plot as an important part of Croatian history, though each of them approached the literary interpretation of that historical event in a different way. While in Kumičić and Kurbel the title itself suggests what the main motive in the course of the narrative is, in Stahuljak the plot is secondary. Her novel, published in 1998, is an example of a post-modern novel, which prefers interference of historical events in the personal and family stories. In this regard, the author focused her narrative emphasis on the atmosphere in which this historical drama took place, viewing it through the lives of ordinary people, while in Kumičić and Kurbel it is a novelistic reconstruction of a historical event, where Kumičić is mostly a documentarist, and Kurbel uses a markedly journalistic and reportage style.

Keywords

Zrinski-Frankopan plot; Kumičić; Kurbel; Stahuljak

Hrčak ID:

173295

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/173295

Publication date:

25.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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