Original scientific paper
TRAVEL WATTLE OF LANDSCAPES, ANTIQUITY AND SPIRITUAL AURA OF SPACE IN TRAVELOGUES BY ZLATKO TOMIČIĆ
Hrvojka Mihanović-Salopek
; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper valorizes for the first time a completely unexplored literary
opus of published travelogue collections of prominent contemporary Croatian
writer Zlatko Tomičić (Zagreb, 1930. – Zagreb, 2008.). Contemporary
international literary production is strongly directed to forming of
the so called non-fictional genres (memoirs, travelogues, autobiographies),
therefore Tomičić’s travelogues are also realized in accordance with
the role of reanimating contemplative envoy. Tomičić’s travel prose is partly
considered in the context of his literary contemporaries and authors’
political-social destiny. However, the paper is in the first plan directed to
literary analysis and interpretation of sixteen travelogues and author’s
literary influences, literary relations and reflexive-philosophic visions are
considered within his forming procedure. A very important constant of
author’s travelogue is aspiration to polyphonic and historic model of life
experiencing. The characteristic of Tomičić’s artistic procedure is interferential
realization of hybrid travelogue genre and creation of literary
wattle i.e. interweaving of cosmopolitism and patriotism and connecting
of realistic observations with a constant of cultural-spiritual aura of described
space.
Keywords
literary work by Zlatko Tomičić; time of the so called “Krugovaši” generation; foreign and home travelogue prose; hybrid genre of contemporary Tomičić’s travelogue
Hrčak ID:
229904
URI
Publication date:
14.12.2010.
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