IDEOLOŠKI I STRUKTURALNI MODERNIZAM U KRLEŽINU POVRATKU FILIPA LATINOVICZA
IDEOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL MODERNISM IN KRLEŽA’S THE RETURN OF FILIP LATINOVICZ

Summary/Abstract: Krleža’s novel The Return of Filip Latinovicz represents a potent combination of ideological and structural modernism where through the character of the eponymous protagonist the chaos of the interbellum 20th century is reflected. Latinovicz as an artist represents a perfect prism through which existential anxieties, his own and those of people around him, are reflected. This prism reveals the alienation and fragmentation between people and their environment, with particlar emphasis on contrasts between rural and urban environment, between social classes, the deterioration of once unassailable moral values and power structures of the church and aristocracy. On the ruins of this society only turmoil flourishes, as the quest for happiness becomes even more elusive, where even its existence comes to be questioned. This disruption of moral values and communication between people is also reflected through experiments in form, such as the classic stream of consciousness, achronological plot and intertextuality. However, Krleža also brings certain refreshmnet into the multiple roles of the narrator, which goes from that of purely descriptive, to those of intimacy, argumentative, sarcastic, and other attitudes. Krleža’s modernism in this novel is effectively a kaleidoscope of personal and societal restlessness of a modern man, an existential war still raging on.

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