Summary
Marija Čalić: The order of desire: the birth of capitalism in the novel Gospodgica Iva Andrić
"The novel Gospodgica Iva Andrić is not the history of an individual, but the history of economic turmoil at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, turmoil in which a completely new economic formation will be born in the countries of the Western Balkans, above all in Serbia and Bosnia. If the noise of history is least heard, it is not because it is not there, but because history speaks here in a whisper that will turn into a whisper only later in general "noise and fury".
The novel Gospodjica is a history, in the sense that it shows capitalism in its becoming, and the history of the individual where it depicts the birth of a capitalist, a man who takes the place of a feudal lord, whose principles are outdated and lose value in the new order.
By directing the analytical focus exclusively on the psychological dimension of this reading, criticism left the question of its social contextualization largely open. no doubt, during his entire creative life, he constantly reflected on the combination of social relations and individual existence, and the novel Miss, on the contrary, remains consistent with his poetics, but in the manner of a "suspicious face". it has its place in the novel, but it can no longer be taken unreservedly as the driving force behind the action. Capitalism drives the action, its heroine and those around her."
Marija Čalić
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