Kroatologija, Vol. 10 No. 1, 2019.
Prethodno priopćenje
Existential Themes in the Catholic View: The Synthesis of the Short Story and Journalistic Report in Smiljana Rendić’s Prose
Zdravko Gavran
; Društvo hrvatskih književnika, Trg bana Josipa Jelačića 7, 10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Modern existential topics taken mainly from the urban milieu, real meaning of the Catholic faith and morality for essential life decisions, questions of human sense in the context of personal experiences, particularly of love and family issues, then maturation, psychological crises and moral dilemmas are substantive basis on which the author builds her prosaic pieces of writing. They are prose texts with dialogues, written in Ich-Form – presenting encounters and contacts of the narrator to the main characters. The texts have all formal features of (short) stories: dialogue, narration, plot, characterisation, short descriptions, stylistic qualities, evocation of atmosphere, focal points, composition, effective and, often, open ends, or idea. At the same time congruous to the journalistic genre of reportage, they happened “hic et nunc” (in 1960-ies, in Croatia, in the Socialist society), while morally and spiritually instructing the reader, and were publicised as such. You could say they be derived from the real encounters, though the expressed aesthetic and literary profile as well as strong intellectuality, psychological attitude and concise reflections on moral dilemmas raise the content of the recounted elements to the level of universal, artistic meaning. These stories are didactic too. Moral and religious attitudes are sometimes spoken out by individual existences, but as a rule they are represented, explained and in the ’body’ of stories argued by the narrator herself. We can sense immediacy and freshness of actuality, the real life represented without embellishing. Boldly are tackled even most delicate questions and controversies, but always also from the Catholic doctrine’s standpoint as well as in the light of Bible and Judeo-Christian tradition.
Ključne riječi
Smiljana Rendić; story; reportage; existence; faith; morality
Hrčak ID:
240655
URI
Datum izdavanja:
16.3.2020.
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