Bilješke jednog pisca kao autopoetički, memoarski i putopisni tekst Sima Matavulja
A Writer's Notes by Simo Matavulj: Literary Text as an Autopoesis, a Memoir and a Travel Text

Summary/Abstract: The principle of the organisation of A Writer's Notes, which were published in the period from 1898 to 1903, involves the chronological arrangement of events and characters from different backgrounds that affected the shaping of Matavulj as a writer. Through his life and literary work, he was connected to many places: from Šibenik and Krupa, through Islam, Herceg Novi and Cetinje to Paris. Simo Matavulj (1852-1908) was a nomad and a Levantine, traveller and a bohemian, and thus this book whose main topoi are roads, square and cafés, confirmed, was so unusual for the 19th century Serbian literature, but were typical of realist literary epoch. He had a tendency to discover discrepancies between issues in a way that umasked the world he lived in, but often himself as well. He gladly concentrated on a point of view that made possible a humorous, ironic, parody-based or satirical subversion of issues and human characteristics. Writing about places and their influences, he discovered portraits of different people (of Count Ilija Jankovic from Dalmatia, the Duke of Medun from Montenegro, Spiro Poznanovic originally from Herceg Novi, etc.) as an optimal form which succeeded in synthesising the analytical as well as artistic demands and pretensions of A Writer's Notes.

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