Professional paper
Who is Ivan Galeb in Proljeća Ivana Galeba (Ivan Galeb’s Springs). In search of an identity
Dorotea Rosandić
; Graduate Study Program of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The subject of this paper is search for the identity of Ivan Galeb in the narration and at the narrated levels. The novel Proljeća Ivana Galeba is written in the first person, so Ivan Galeb's identity is created through the narrator and the character as well; it is revealed through the way he narrates but also through what he narrates about himself. The goal is to get closer to Ivan Galeb from as many aspects as possible, referring at the same time to narration as a medium for identity creation and the narrated as the thematic alternative to narration. The change of identity of the narrated Ivan Galeb and his meeting with death, seen as a new beginning, are key elements of the narrated level, when the elusiveness of the narrator in the autobiographical form stays an open issue of the narration level.
Keywords
Proljeća Ivana Galeba; identity; narration; the narrated; theme of death; the autobiographical form
Hrčak ID:
174618
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2011.
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