The Historical Contextualisation of Red Tank (1922), a Short Story by Vladimir Nazor Cover Image

Povijesna kontekstualizacija pripovijetke Vladimira Nazora Crveni tank (1922.)
The Historical Contextualisation of Red Tank (1922), a Short Story by Vladimir Nazor

Author(s): Jevgenij Paščenko
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Croatian Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: Vladimir Nazor; World War I; Russian avant-garde; Bolshevism;

Summary/Abstract: Red Tank, a short story by Vladimir Nazor (1922) analysed in this paper is estimated as one of the more important contributions in Croatian literature on First World War and its consequences. Although it has been mostly neglected until contemporary times, it presents its author as a masterful artist, humanist, and a visionary. By using allegories, Vladimir Nazor noticed a number of tendencies in the society of his time, and he also predicted a future war as a consequence of the World War I. In this paper, allegorical symbolism in the short story will be elaborated in a broad historical context.

  • Issue Year: 37/2017
  • Issue No: 02/146
  • Page Range: 317-334
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian