Crnogorska dječja književnost i dječji svijet Dušana Kostića
Montenegrin Children’s Literature and the Children’s World of Dušan Kostić

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents an overview of Montenegrin children’s literature which provides the context for an analysis of the children’s novels of Dušan Kostić. Kostić is known for various literary genres, from poetry and prose (short stories and novels) to journalistic narratives, travelogues and critical works. This author is hardly less prolific in children’s and young adult literature, as he published five works intended for young readers: the poem The Town Jelengaj (1954) and four novels: Deaf Cave (1956), Sutjeska (1958), Blue Treasure (1963) and Chestnut Mountain (1967). Many of his motifs and themes are derived from his memories of a difficult childhood spent in poverty at the time of economic crisis after the First World War. Kostić followed the tendency of lyrical and artistic expression, the most expressive means of his own poetics, in the creation of children’s books. In his works, Kostić describes with poetical liveliness his own childhood and the circumstances in which he grew up. Thus, he can rightfully be considered one of the main representatives of autobiographical narrative fiction among Montenegrin writers.

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