Problematika hrvatskoga nacionalnog identiteta u Krležinu romanu Zastave
The problems of the Croatian national identity in Krleža’s novel Flags / Zastave

Author(s): Zvjezdana Rados
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Miroslav Krleža; the novel Zastave; Croatian national identity; Croatianhood; Yugoslavism
Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the problems of the Croatian national identity in Krleža’s novel Flags/ Zastave (1976), the “dramatic history” of the agony and the final collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Balkan Wars, Wold War I and the newly formed South Slavic state community.Through the political genesis of the basic actant of the novel and his relation to other characters of the novel the national identity genesis will be monitored as well: from romantic Croatianhood, that strongest (non-state) foothold in the Arcadian experience of “our lovely homeland”, then the ecstatic Yugonationalism as a way out of the “large prison of nations” to the “bloody caricature” of the hero’s youthful political dreams in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In the novel, by analogy, mirror images of unresolved national issues in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are noticeable.

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