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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Czerwiński, Maciej

Titel

W podróży do celu. Urok pyłu Vjekoslava Kaleba i Krótka wycieczka Antuna Šoljana

Ist Teil von

• Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2019, Vol.14 (3), p.151-164

Ort / Verlag

Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the article a problem of mutual intertwining relationships between two Croatian short novels is taken into consideration. Although Vjekoslav Kaleb’s Glorious Dust (1954) and Antun Šoljan’s Short Excursion (1965) are set in a different chronotope, namely the former in the Dalmatian hinterland during World War Two and the latter in the Istrian post-war Yugoslav reality, they possess some similar structural features. Among resemblances a motif of journey, taken allegorically as life (conceptual metaphor “life if a journey”), that binds together the two novels, is the most important. The author of this article attempts to investigate the problem of such a concept of journey referring both to the philosophy of existentialism (notably Camus and Sartre) and literary preoccupations concerning the problem of meaningfulness and senselessness of human raison d’être.