Pavlović Boro: Album vedrine

Boro Pavlović: Album of cheerfulness

The book Album of cheerfulness includes thirty-six of Pavlović's essay portraits of Croatian writers, mostly his contemporaries, who were created in a wide range from the beginning of the 50s of the last century until the mid-eighties: Dragutin Tadijanović, Antun Gustav Matoš, Ivan Raos, Bogdan Stopar, Juraj Baldanija, Tino Ujević, Ivan Goran Kovačić, Vesna Parun, Pere Budak, Dubravko Ivančan, Nikola Šop, Milivoj Slavicek, Krunoslav Quien, Radovan Ivšić, Jure Kaštelan, Josip Pupačić, Krsto Špoljar, Drago Gervais, Slavko Mihalić, Vjekoslav Majer, Đura Šnajder, Vlade Kovačić, Anka-Maria Petričević, Slavko Kolar, Olinka Delorka, Matka Peić, Dragutin Vunak, Vladimir Brodnjak, Enver Čolaković, Flora Dosen, Marija Peakić, Josip Palada, Vladimir Reinhofer, Vjekoslav Kaleb, Miroslav Madjer, Salih Alić, Vladimir Košćak, Mirko Jirsak.
The second part of the book brings Pavlović's monographic essay on the lonely paths of Đura Sudeta.
Boro Pavlović approaches the mentioned individual authors of Croatian literature with unsparing energy. knowledge of the "scene" to which they belong, as well as the subject works themselves, and produces reader texts of special charm and lightness. With lightness of thought and sovereign movement through the texts, he does not want to teach anyone, but to carefully leaf through the life of the text. All these fragmentary interpretations of Croatian writers are testaments to the cheerfulness and interpretive meticulousness, especially the complete commitment to the textuality of the author's oeuvre or individual record.
Pavlović's essays are concentrated on the factography that surrounds the poetic portrait of an individual author. However, in addition to the information about the activity and creation and the biography of the creator he accesses, the author of the essay very carefully directs his concentration to the reception that was given to that creator. It is certain that each of Pavlović's essays would be a perfect script, but also the narrative text of a documentary film portrait of an individual author. Pavlović also regularly activates the method of stylistic interpretation, namely analytically or synthetically approaches issues of language, word formation, and sentence and rhythmic images of texts. In Pavlović's essays, stylistic alloying is active. Namely, Pavlović approaches the authors who are particularly important to him so closely that he adopts their styles and begins to present the essay in two voices: Pavlović takes the "rules" of the text in reading.
And in these letters from the time of Boro Pavlović - a participant in the extremely lively historical space of literary life in the fifties and sixties of the last century - expressed himself as an anticipator of postmodern reading of poetry as well as other literature.