The Narrator´s Harlequin Mask. A reading of Janko Polić Kamov´s Short Story Catastrophe Cover Image
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Pripovjedačeva Maska Lakridajaša. Čitanje Kamovljeve Novele Katastrofa
The Narrator´s Harlequin Mask. A reading of Janko Polić Kamov´s Short Story Catastrophe

Author(s): Marina Protrka
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: Janko Polić Kamov’s short story Catastrophe; Janko Polić Kamov; Croatian literature; avantgardism; (proto)avantgardism

Summary/Abstract: Unlike the earlier interpretations which overlooked or negatively assessed Janko Polić Kamov’s short story Catastrophe, this is an attempt to »rehabilitate« this work, presenting the story in the light of Kamov’s (proto)avantgardism. The paper shows how Kamov’s narrator insistently directs the reader’s attention from the story to the narrating procedure. In this way mimetism is replaced by autoreferenciality and synthetism.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 117-124
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Croatian