Političke krize u Jadranskoj trilogiji Nedjeljka Fabrija
Političke krize u Jadranskoj trilogiji Nedjeljka Fabrija

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines political crises and their impact on the individual in Jadranska trilogija [The Adriatic Trilogy] (created from 1985-2002) by Nedjeljko Fabrio. It begins with an explanation of the concept of crisis and political crisis. We speak of a crisis when essential values that form the basis of a community’s life are threatened. Crises in this trilogy are presented on both the social and individual levels. The political crises at the social level in the Jadranska trilogija [The Adriatic Trilogy] reveal an uncertain and turbulent social situation across political, economic, social and cultural systems. In the whirlwinds of history, the characters are exposed to merciless political upheavals, which they confront in ways that are acceptable to them. Thus, the political crisis at the individual level manifests itself through the problematization of the characters’ actions who are placed under increased psychological pressure and struggle to orient themselves in space and time. They do not behave in the usual way. The paper examines the literary procedures through which the author engages with the politics of literature, as well as the ways in which the text reorganizes the system of narrative conventions and the perception of the literary work (according to the theoretical assumptions of Jacques Rancière). The novels of Jadranska trilogija [The Adriatic Trilogy] are also interpreted in accordance with the views of Jacques Derrida, who argued that literature is a modern institution inseparable from the modern institution of democracy. He believes that an author can say whatever he wishes while remaining protected from any form of censorship (political or religious) precisely through literature. The freedom that literature offers is a “powerful political weapon, which can nevertheless be neutralized at a moment’s notice as fiction”.

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