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Traditional elements in Ardalić's and Aralica's works
Ivan Bošković
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Except as a noted name in contemporary literature, Aralica is also known as the “Homer of Promina“, and his work as an Dalmatian equivalent of Odyssey of Dalmatian Zagora. In part these attributes should be supported by the fact that history and modernity of the Dalmatian inland, with all forms of its material and spiritual culture, have nowhere found such a profound and eloquent literary expression as in his books. Against the background of the historical reality that the author takes as his theme, in Aralica’s books a Braudelian history of a land, an „under the table“ history which cannot be found in great herbarias, speaks and lives. His is a history that feeds on everyday life, customs, habits, buildings, songs and fi ddle, the words of the story tellers, curses, revenge ...; the history that owes its duration to man’s struggle for survival, weather adversities and imperatives. According to these guidelines Aralica’s work, like the work of authors coming from similar backgrounds (Božić, Raos, Jelić), represents a treasury of data about the region and an inexhaustible well of folklore and tradition. In my view, Aralica’s materials
actively correspond with some of the content and themes addressed in Ardalić’s Bukovica: folk life and customs. Composed in response to the initiative of the Yugoslav Academy of Arts And Sciences’ Committee for National Life and Customs in 1890s Ardalić’s book describes the life and customs in the Bukovica region. It followsthe questionnaire made and distributed byAntun Radić in 1897 with the aim of encouraging preservation of authentic traditional folk / popular culture. This paper focuses on the aspects of the traditional culture built in Aralica’s literature, with the awareness that tradition, with a large spectrum of its materials and forms, is not “just a series of sentimental reminiscences, but a living organism in which past and
present form a whole.”
Ključne riječi
Aralica; traditional and folk treasury; the end of history; Ardalić
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118060
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8.5.2012.
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