Drveni most na hrastovim stupovima (roman Veliki hrast Vlade Andrilovića kao polazište priče osobne povijesti)
Wooden Bridge on Oak Pillars: The Novel Veliki Hrast (The Big Oak) of Vlado Andrilović as the Starting Point of a Personal History

Author(s): Julijana Matanović
Subject(s): Croatian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: novel; Veliki hrast; Vlado Andrilović; oak as literary motif; recognition; Slavonia;
Summary/Abstract: Through a family story divided into three parts, the novel of Vlado Andrilović Veliki hrast (1989) presents the Slavonian history. The proud tree represents the answer to the question of what history means to Slavonians and what has sustained them over the centuries. Such a question stirs memories of personal history within the reader. After reading the text, a novel in which the characteristics of a historical novel and a novel about history are intertwined, a moment of the reader’s own biography is enlivened through the oak motif. In the key word recognition lies the true meaning of the literary text written in a time not inclined to a narration of a history not authenticated by scholarship.

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