Digimodernistička proza Vlade Bulića
Digimodernist prose by Vlado Bulić

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes Vlado Bulić’s novel “Putovanje u srce hrvatskoga sna” by observing its relationship with the poetics of the Croatian reality fiction as well as with the cultural paradigm of digimodernism proposed by the British cultural theorist Alan Kirby. Kirby claims that the key features of this new aesthetics are the construction of “the apparently real”, onwardness and convergence of the narrative and a new type of subjectivity which Kirby calls supersubjectivity. The paper presupposes that unlike the stable and privileged narrator which had dominated the stories and novels of the Croatian reality fiction, the subjectivity of Bulić’s narrator is shaped by the strong impacts of different types of discourses circulating the public domain and his fluid identity is the effect of the influence these discourses have on the individual. The analysis of the novel primarily focuses on the stylistics and textual features and procedures (e.g. interdiscursive and intermedial blending, digitalization of the narrative voice, virtualization of the text) due to which this novel represents a radical departure from the poetics of the Croatian reality fiction. By deconstructing the discourses that have been shaping the fabric of the Croatian social reality as well as the literary conventions that have enabled its mimetic transposition into literary texts, Bulić’s novel positions itself as the key text of the Croatian virtual realism.

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