Jaga-baba na Haliču – pronađeni rukopis Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić
Jaga-baba na Haliču: A Recently Found Manuscript of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the almost unknown text of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Jaga-baba na Haliču [Yaga Baba on Halič Hill], discovered in the archives of Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) in April 2012. It is a narrative about Baba Yaga, a mythological creature, a Slavic witch, with a plot set on Halič, a hill near Varaždin, where the author had strong family ties. This prose text is an unfinished, fragmentary narrative, only parts of which were published in 1960 in Zagorski kolendar [Zagorje Almanac]. After the author died, the manuscript went to her son, Ivo Brlić. Tracing it back, we find it listed in the Brlić Family Archives. However, the actual manuscript had been lost until its recent discovery. The paper discusses the textual and formal aspects of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić’s writing in the discovered narrative and positions it in a wider context: the literary, historical and autobiographical aspects of the author’s writing, her neoromantic orientation and her preoccupation with Slavic mythological motifs, and with the local region of Hrvatsko Zagorje as the thematic background of the story.

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