Poetyka „umarłego miasta”. Literackie strategie obrazowania Dubrownika w dramacie „Dubrovačka trilogija” Iva Vojnovicia w kontekście studium „Pad Dubrovnika” Luja Vojnovicia
The Poetics of the ‘Dead City’: Literary Strategies of Portraying Dubrovnik in Ivo Vojnovič’s Drama “Dubrovačka trilogija” in the Context of the Study “Pad Dubrovnika” by Lujo Vojnovič

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the drama "Dubrovačka trilogija" [A Trilogy of Dubrovnik] by Ivo Vojnovič in the perspective of the historical study "Pad Dubrovnika" [The Fall of Dubrovnik] of his younger brother Lujo. The springboard for this discussion is Antun Gustav Matoš’s suggestion to read both works as parallel texts on account of the fact that they both complement each other in establishing the image of a ‘dead city,’ which in fact, the nineteenth-century Dubrovnik appeared to be. The article examines the key components of the poetics of the trilogy, that is, space-time and selected motifs such as the ones related to the characters as they constitute the most essential elements of poetics in this particular context of the analysis. Their semantics and functions in the presented literary vision are complemented by a thorough examination of a historical commentary by Lujo Vojnovič.

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