Original scientific paper

VITEZ AND KUŠAN – ORIGINATORS OF MODERN CROATIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Abstract

The Text focuses on the year 1956 which represents the crucial year in Croatian
children’s literature. This is the year when G. Vitez published his poetry collection
Prepelica (The Quail), which was accepted as a paradigm of modern Croatian
children’s poetry, whereas I. Kušan’s novel Uzbuna na zelenom vrhu (Alert on
Green Peak), published in the same year, introduced a series of innovations in the
concept of children’s novel. The paper analyses these works taking out the elements
belonging to tradition and those which will become essential determinants of
modern forms of children’s literature. Also, the author presents a summary of the
situation in children’s literature before those authors’ appearance on the literary
scene and their infl uence on writers in Croatia. A parallel is drawn with world
children’s literature.

Keywords

Vitez; Kušan; modern children’s poem; modern children’s novel

Hrčak ID:

26964

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/26964

Publication date:

4.12.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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