IZGNANI ANDRIĆ U LIRICI I PRIPOVECI ZANOS I STRADANE TOMA GALUSA
BANISHED ANDRIC IN POETRY AND THE SHORT STORY THE ECSTASY AND SUFFERING OF TOMA GALUS

Summary/Abstract: This paper seeks to analyze the experiences of exile, imprisonment and exclusion, through which the poet and prose writer Ivo Andriæ lived during the First World War, and also their influence on the collection of poetry entitled Ex Ponto (1918), on the verses in prose Nemiri(Unrest, 1920), as well as on the short stories Most na epi (The Bridge on the epa, 1925) and Zanosi i stradanja Tome Galusa (The Ecstasy and Suffering of Toma Galus, 1931). Sucha textual analysis, based as it is on biographical facts, will attempt to show how Andriæ’s direct experience of war and persecution looms largely in his poetry of the period, and is also perceivable in the psychological structure of the short story characters of Toma Galus and VizierJusuf. The motifs of sun, darkness and prison, associated with the unjust incarceration of the above-mentioned heroes are the key elements in Andriæ’s early works, characterized by a profound sentiment of melancholy and isolation. They also make an integral part of the psychological and poetic context.

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