Dvije mediteranske zbirke pripovijedaka (sa Sicilije i iz Cavtata)
Two Mediterranean Collections of Stories (From Sicily and from Cavtat)

Summary/Abstract: Stories from the Bogišić’s collection in Cavtat near Dubrovnik, as well as several more recent stories from the same region, are being compared to the Sicilian collection of G. Pitre. The article points to historical connections between Dubrovnik and Sicily, as well as the Mediterranean basin in general. Common types of stories according to the Aarne-Thompson index are not enumerated because the author aims at showing the resemblance of cultural and social situations encountered in the stories from both collections. Besides some oriental elements it is mostly the features of the life of the sailors which are woven into the texts. Several stories have a source in Thousand and one night, having specific modifications in both milieus. Some stories from Cavtat have, it is proposed, a source in Basile’s Pentameron. Stylistic compositional procedures in the change of the scenery of the event and in the transcending of real time, known to Sicilian and Turkish but not to Cavtat stories, are discussed in the end. The main intention of the article is to show how in the frame of broadly known motifs the narrators express the images of their proper, in many aspects similar life situation in the Mediterranean.

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