Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.7.2.7
A Few Reflections on Truhelkaʼs Book about a Woman, a Bird and a House Made of Imagination: Pipo i Pipa
Snežana Šarančić Čutura
orcid.org/0000-0001-5648-0662
; Pedagoški fakultet u Somboru Sveučilišta u Novom Sadu, Srbija
Abstract
The paper attempts to contribute to the contemporary readings of Pipo i Pipa [Pipo and Pipa] (1923) by Jagoda Truhelka. After tracing one of the critical texts from the Serbian academic context, attention is paid to several analytically and interpretatively challenging topics, including: sentimentality, narrative dynamism, the system of ideas and values (on women’s identity and destiny; on the principles of goodness, mercy and giving; on loneliness and fantasy; on the relationship between childhood and being old; on the relationship between people and animals; on literature), and on the semantics and symbolism of certain structural aspects. Compared to Zlatni danci [The Golden Days], however, this book by Truhelka has been critically marginalised; it is intriguing both in efforts to understand other literary works by Truhelka, and to understand the historical, poetic, genre-related, stylistic, and conceptual trends in the development of Croatian literature for children.
Keywords
critical reception; Croatian children’s literature; Jagoda Truhelka; Pipo i Pipa;
Hrčak ID:
220274
URI
Publication date:
21.5.2019.
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