Moj otac, japanski ministar teške industrije
My Father, Japanese Minister of Heavy Industry

Summary/Abstract: The consideration of irony here is established through several relations in the text: the irony between the characters, the irony the narrator uses in relation to the characters, the author’s irony in relation to the narrator and the reader. Nevertheless, very rarely is it one-way irony: the interpretation of one of the stories from „Early Sorrows“ by Danilo Kiš or some paragraphs written by Krleža and Crnjanski, are used with the aim of shedding light on relations where irony is being established, as well as its function within the text. The so-called ironic deflection gains a special attention here, and so do the direct and indirect irony. Since it is impossible to provide a universal pattern for irony detection, this text serves as a guide for detecting some of the mechanisms that can be used to create on-the-spot irony, which could prove useful for teachers in terms of adopting certain tools for recognising and including irony in the interpretation of the text. Further analysis can also reveal how irony can have to do with the author’s view on life and the world, in general.

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