Professional paper
“Death and the Dervish” by Meša Selimović and “The Tree of Dreams” by Fulvio Tomizza as Novels Inspired by the Authors’ Personal Experiences
Diana Njegovan
; University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Abstract
Personal tragedies caused by historical and political reasons are well-known today thanks to studies of otherness. Although there are already studies that deal with the literary production of Meša Selimović and Fulvio Tomizza, there is no study that attempts to compare their literary works.
The analysis begins with similarities in the biographies of the two authors. They were interested in communism, and both authors lost a family member to the regime. Selimović lost his brother, and Tomizza his father. These tragedies inspired “Death and the Dervish” and “The Tree of Dreams”. The two novels, which contain autobiographical experiences, are written in the first-person form of a diary and deal with the relationship between God and the narrator.
We expect that a comparative approach between the novels will be useful for further research on the relationship between Italian and Slavic literature and culture.
Keywords
Tomizza, Selimović, novels, autobiography, otherness
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314616
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Publication date:
4.2.2024.
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