Livljanić, Sara.
(2018).
Comparative reading of works by Bolesław Prus
and Ksaver Šandor Gjalski.
Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of West Slavic Languages and Literature.
[mentor Pavlović, Cvijeta and Čilić Škeljo, Đurđica].
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the comparative reading of works by Bolesław Prus and Ksaver Šandor Gjalski. The thesis discusses the political and social situations in Europe which had an immediate effect on the political climate in Croatia and Poland in the 19th century, as well as the internal political turmoils in both countries. In addition, the thesis focuses on the cultural, artistic, and philosophical movements which had appeared in Europe and the manner in which they were understood in the two countries, especially the manners in which Gjalski and Prus incorporated them in their works. Even though they were from two different countries, we can find many similarities in their works Pod starim krovovima (Under Old Roofs) by Ksaver Šandor Gjalski and Lutka (The Doll) by Bolesław Prus. One of the similarities is the way in which they had described Brezovica and Warsaw, places of great emotional value to them. We can find elements of neoromanticism in both works which are embodied in two very important characters, Ignacy Rzeczki and Kornel Batrić. Both authors wrote about the decline of nobility, accentuating their view of the problem which is the nobility's inability to change. Moreover, they both depicted the poorest social class in the same manner.
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