Djetinjstvo u Agramu Miroslava Krleže i pitanje osjetilne percepcije
Childhood in Agram by Miroslav Krleža and the Question of Sensory Perception

Summary/Abstract: If in Childhood in Agram by Miroslav Krleža we disregard the temporal level of narration, which can be considered as the present time, what remains - and this is the level of narration based on the strategy of remembrance - leaves the impression of an attempt of aloose chronology in which sensory data and not biographical facts are strung together. Krleža deliberately reduces the reality of his childhood to the aspects accessible to sensory perceptions, to »images« resisting conceptual interpretation and attempts to place them in a logical order. This is the result of Krleža's conviction that there is no transcendent being so that the totality of existence cannot be understood by reason but by the body. The paper endeavours to show how Krleža is solving the difficulty of finding verbal equivalence for his sensory experience.

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