GLAZBENO TVORIVO ROMANA DVA SVIJETA VJENCESLAVA NOVAKA
THE MUSICAL MATERIAL OF THE NOVEL DVA SVIJETA BY VJENCESLAV NOVAK

Summary/Abstract: In the psychological novel of the turn of the century Dva Svijeta (Two Worlds) the musician Amadej Zlatanić reflects upon his creative potential in the cultural area of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. // The domestic space of the denied affiliation weakens the visibility of the Croatian name, and social conventions threaten Zlatanić’s artistic, strengthened by musical schooling, integrity. Novak achieves a hero’s initiation into the musical universe with the syncretic metalanguage of the musical art. // Musicologist Sanja Majer-Bobetko found Novak’s overview of European musical history. With the novel Dva Svijeta Novak applies his own propaedeutic experience of the transfer of musical forms into narrative forms. Novak’s representation of the duality of the apparent and imagined world is a building block of the novel about becoming an artist. Translating the language of music into a proto-modernist narrative expression, Novak questions the perspective of Croatian artistic identity in the said historical-cultural order.

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