Summary
Božidar Brezinščak Bagola: Searching for oneself
The novel Searching for oneself caused a kind of sensation at that time. Yugoslavia was a communist state, which means that the secular and sacred authorities did not practice such an idyll as today, so the novel about a seminarian who writes poems and gradually replaces the call of the priesthood with the call of the body resonated like a bombshell. Considering the mentioned details, Searching for Yourself can be read as a kind of bildungsroman. (...) The action of the novel takes place in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Eichstätt, Munich, then again in Zagreb and Munich and finally in Belgrade, with the assumption that the main character or the author's alter ego will return to the starting point in his native Hum na Sutla after all. In addition to being a bildungsroman Search for Yourself can be read as an autobiography, a travelogue and a diary with interpolated narrative sequences, in which a large number of literary, poetic and philosophical names have a special function.
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