Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/SEC.36.19
Sails Full of “Anti-heroism” – Poetics and Politics of the Travelogue Besa: Ship’s Log by Joža Horvat (Summary)
Andrea Matošević
Abstract
The paper interprets aspects of Joža Horvat’s travelogue "Besa: brodski dnevnik". Created as a series of articles published in Vjesnik u srijedu from 1965 to 1967, this travelogue is characterized by several specificities, i.e. the “anti-heroic” and “self-ironic” tone in which it was written. Also, the question of Otherness that arose in the logbook is articulated in a twofold manner. On the one hand, the Besa crew itself is sometimes interpreted as the “Other” since it comes from a socialist country, but at the same time socialist ideas serve as an interpretive framework in which the author places a series of relationships and situations he comes across.
Keywords
Besa; Joža Horvat; travelogue; “anti-heroism”; self-irony
Hrčak ID:
325710
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2024.
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