Review article

https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37209

The Historical Contextualisation of Red Tank (1922), a Short Story by Vladimir Nazor

Jevgenij Paščenko ; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet, Ivana Lučića 3, HR–10000 Zagreb

Abstract

Red Tank, a short story by Vladimir Nazor (1922) analysed in this paper is estimated as one of the more important contributions in Croatian literature on First World War and its consequences. Although it has been mostly neglected until contemporary times, it presents its author as a masterful artist, humanist, and a visionary. By using allegories, Vladimir Nazor noticed a number of tendencies in the society of his time, and he also predicted a future war as a consequence of the World War I. In this paper, allegorical symbolism in the short story will be elaborated in a broad historical context.

Keywords

Vladimir Nazor; World War I; Russian avant-garde; Bolshevism

Hrčak ID:

188029

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/188029

Publication date:

23.8.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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