Književne slike Marka Cara o Simu Matavulj
Marko Car's Literary Pictures about Simo Matavulj

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reconsider the interdisciplinary activity of Marko Car (1859-1953) who has contributed greatly to the development of literary history and critique of South-Slavic literature with his book My Sympathies, published in Zadar in 1913. The book is comprised of the cycles of his literary pictures and studies, as we find out from the subtitle of My Sympathies given by this unusual aesthete himself. Beside the intention to base his attitudes on objective evaluations, the book is indicated by the impact of author's personal impressions and it paves the way for the impressionistic critique. Car perceives Simo Matavulj as essential narrator whose intention is not to impose an idea. He discusses the most relevant narrative techniques in Matavulj's literary work in which there is no abstraction, the action is moved by the impulse of event, the linear composition is omitted, the narrative patterns are finely perceived anegdotes that disclose the dramatic of the real, literary characters that are vivid mostly due to the distinct speech characterization..

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