Summary
Matko Sršen: Comedies in Dubrovnik
Comedies in Dubrovnik by Matko Sršen are the work of a contemporary author who - at the same time as a writer, director and scientist - has been systematically dealing with Dubrovnik for decades. Even a cursory glance at the book clearly clarifies the extremely layered and complex interrelationship that gives rise to the title phrase of the library where this book is published: Modernity and heritage.
Heritage is strikingly and above all instructive reflected in the author's effort to permanently present to the readership several versions of the Dubrovnik language idiom ranging from Držić's time to the present day. Language here functions as an envelope interwoven with literary silence that protects the heritage conceived in this way from the murderousness of oblivion. The wide range of topics covered in these comedies ranges from the patinated past of the old to the strong present of present-day Dubrovnik, which unpretentiously elevates the just-mentioned correlation between heritage and
contemporary to the level of a kind of actuality that will be renewed in connection with this book with every more well-designed attempt to deal with Dubrovnik's themes in a literary and scientific way.
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