Jedra puna „antiheroizma“. Poetika i politika putopisa „Besa: brodski dnevnik“ Jože Horvata
Sails Full of “Anti-heroism” – Poetics and Politics of the Travelogue Besa: Ship’s Log by Joža Horvat

Summary/Abstract: The paper interprets aspects of Joža Horvat’s travelogue Besa: brodski dnevnik. Created as a series of articles published in Vjesnik u srijedu from 1965 to 1967, this travelogue is characterized by several specificities, i.e. the “anti-heroic” and “self-ironic” tone in which it was written. Also, the question of Otherness that arose in the logbook is articulated in a twofold manner. On the one hand, the Besa crew itself is sometimes interpreted as the “Other” since it comes from a socialist country, but at the same time socialist ideas serve as an interpretive framework in which the author places a series of relationships and situations he comes across.

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