Riječ satkana od suglasnika: pripovjedne strategije u Kosi posvuda Tee Tulić
A word woven only of consonants: narrative strategies in Hair Everywhere by Tea Tulić

Summary/Abstract: The novel Hair Everywhere (2011) by the contemporary Croatian author Tea Tulić (b. 1978) has a first-person narration, mostly from a child’s perspective, and gives the story of how a mother’s dying of tumor affects those around her through a series of simultaneously poetic and prosaic sketches, simultaneously moving and witty. Intriguing enough when taken individually, and only more so in the context of the whole collection, certain motifs are insistently repeated and varied in fragments, mirroring the mother’s deterioration and the narrator’s infantile rationalization, and all but achieve the status of private symbolism. The paper discusses these narrative strategies in an attempt to establish how the composition of the collection bears upon its interpretation.

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