Essays
More on Đuka Begović
Krešimir Nemec
; Department of Croatian language and literature, Faculty of humanities and social sciences at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper starts from the assumption that Đuka Begović in his ambiguity and multiplicity is a typical protagonist of modernist literature. All his actions are characterized by a sense of contradiction, of constant swinging between heaven (which he aspires to) and the Pannonian mud (which he is fully immersed in). All his life he has been torn between the awareness of his own exclusiveness and apartness, which he was imbued with by his father, and a deep sense of inability to break away from innate depravity and inherited moral corruption. Đuka admits that he deliberately chose a life of evil, knowing that such a way of life would be evil itself. His conduct is erratic, deprived of any meaning, social responsibility or purposefulness. Lubomir Doleæel referred to such characters - who consciously, by their own free will exempted themselves from social codes and civil obligations and followed their own principles - as deontic aliens.
Keywords
Ivan Kozarac; contradiction; eroticism; deontic alien
Hrčak ID:
174589
URI
Publication date:
3.12.2012.
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