ROMAN POSLJEDNJI STIPANČIĆI VJENCESLAVA NOVAKA U SREDNJOŠKOLSKOJ NASTAVI KNJIŽEVNOSTI
THE NOVEL POSLJEDNJI STIPANČIĆI BY VJENCESLAV NOVAK IN THE TEACHING OF SECONDARY SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: In the history of Croatian literature, Vjenceslav Novak is presented as a realistic writer of the littoral environment, with an emphasis on his origins, work at school, material living conditions and the themes that he took mostly from the real world. Novak was an objective realistic narrator because he did not exalt or despise, yet at the same time, he was socially sensitive because he was the first one to bring his love for family and language into Croatian realism, with which he created a novel titled Posljednji Stipančići (The Last Stipančićs). It is obvious that the beauty of the selected words contributed to the fact that throughout the narration of the family story about the Stipančićs, the safe strokes of the writer’s pen are felt, whether he talks about it chronologically or retrospectively. // The criticism of the realism had no understanding of Novak’s huge opus as a result of a distinctive artistic creative force. Modern Croatian literary criticism has shown the growth of Novak’s opus over four concentric circles. Since each literary work is a special correlation between the world that the writer depicts and the language in which he writes about that world, the logical connection is Novak’s social and linguistic sensitivity as he tells the life story of a family of his time. In contemporary literary criticism, the novel The Last Stipančićs was proclaimed as the best novel of Croatian realism, it was present in secondary school literature classes, and last school year and at the state matura.

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