Što je Hamlet Krleži?
What's Hamlet to Krleža?

Summary/Abstract: Shakespeare is often mentioned or alluded to in Miroslav Krleža's nonfictional texts. References to Shakespeare's works, original or routine-like, usually belong to the sphere of war, violence, and striving for power. Most frequently the motifs come from Hamlet and analogies from that play, as well as from the histories and from Macbeth, can be detected in the political novel Banquet in Blitvia. Four other fictional texts, the story Devil's Island, the play The Glembay Family, the modernist novel 17,e Return of Filip Latinovicz, and the roman-fleuve of ideas Banners, are studied here in the perspective of Freud's concept of the »family romance« and of a Freudian interpretation of Hamlet's affinity to the Sophoclean tragedy of Oedipus Rex and the underlying myth. According to what is known, Krleža's interest in this theme may have very personal roots while the other Shakespearean motifs which he uses correspond to his persisting social and political concerns.

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