Dubrovačka trilogija

Dubrovačka trilogija #1-3

by Ivo Vojnović

Remek-djelo Ive Vojnovića "Dubrovačka trilogija" prati pad Dubrovnika i nestanak dubrovačke vlastele kroz razdoblje od gotovo sto godina: "Allons enfants!" smješten je u vrijeme dolaska Francuza u Dubrovnik 27. svibnja 1806, "Suton", smješten u 1832. godinu, govori o neslobodi i okretanju prošlosti, a "Na taraci", smješten u suvremenu 1900. godinu, o prodoru novog vremena i novih ljudi. Trilogiju uokviruju dva soneta iz ciklusa "Lapadski soneti", "Prelude" i "Na Mihajlu".

Genres: Plays, Classics, Drama

122 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1901

About the author

Vojnović was born in Dubrovnik as the first son of Count Konstantin Vojnović (1832–1903) and María de Serraglí (1836–1922) on the 9th of October 1857 in Dubrovnik, the Habsburg Monarchy. He was a member of the Serbian noble House of Vojnović. The city of his birth and its history had an important influence on his later literary work. Most of his childhood however he spent in Split. He had a famous younger brother Lujo Vojnović, who would later play an important political and cultural role in the late 19th- and 20th-century Dalmatia and Montenegro. As a young man he moved to Zagreb with his family, where he graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law in 1879. Until 1884 he served as a trainee of the Royal Court Table in Zagreb. After that he continued his judicial career in Križevci (1884-1889), Bjelovar (1889), Zadar (1889-1891). In 1893, Vojnović wrote a short play Gundulićev san (lit. Gundulić's Dream) that was published in Dubrovnik at the time of the unveiling of the Gundulić monument, which explicitly advocated a unity of Croats and Serbs in Dubrovnik. In 1899, he obtained employment at the court in Dubrovnik, then moved to Supetar on the island of Brač, then to Zadar, and again to Supetar. His career in the judiciary ended in 1907 when he was fired from the office in Supetar because of financial wrongdoing, and stripped of pension rights. In 1907 he became the dramaturg at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.At this time, Vojnović's pro-Serbian ideas were apparent from his work, in which he enthusiastically supported the unification of South Slavs under Serbia.
Prior to the Balkan Wars, Vojnović wrote plays that showed great pride in his origins, however, that would not augur well during World War I when his country got invaded. In 1911 travelled to Italy, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade. In his 1912 visit to Belgrade he publicly claimed he had Serbian noble descent. In 1914 he went back to Dubrovnik where the Austrian-Hungarian government imprisoned him in a Šibenik jail under charges of being a Yugoslavian nationalist. After four months, on Christmas Eve 1914 he was relocated to a prison near Linz, Austria. He was detained without trial for three years by his Austrian captors.[citation needed] In 1917 he was finally transferred to the Sisters of Mercy Hospital in Zagreb. There, unsuccessful attempts were made to cure some severe eye ailments that he had contracted while being incarcerated. After World War I ended, in 1919 he moved to France, where he mostly lived in Nice until 1922 when he moved back to Dubrovnik. Because of his claims of being a nobleman, and because of his unrestrained Yugoslavism, by 1924 Miroslav Krleža had engaged in a public feud with him, calling him a fake count and a drama dilettante. In 1928, Vojnović's eye problems became acute, threatened with blindness, and in ill health, he went to Serbia to be treated in a sanatorium in Krunska street, Vračar, Belgrade. He died there in 1929.

Reviews

[Filip Rutić · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok ivo "didaskalija" vojnović

[Valentina Markasović · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vjerojatno bi mi se djelo više svidjelo da sam imala uz sebe rječnik ili da je barem moje izdanje imalo objašnjenja nekih izraza, jer su dijelovi teksta napisani na talijanskom. Uz to, nisam upoznata s okolicom Dubrovnika (sela i otoci) koji se često spominju u djelo.
No, sve u svemu, pretpostavljam da i nije tako loše. Najviše mi se svidio drugi dio trilogije, Suton. Da ne duljim, hrvatski klasik i tako to.

[Annie Coleman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very interesting, to view the lives of noblemen amongst the fall of the nobility in Dubrovnik, Croatia throughout the 19th century. However, I think I/we got done dirty with a poor translation/edition. There were several simple typos and several sentences that just didn't make grammatical sense in english, which pulled away from the story greatly. It was also difficult to follow how the three parts connected to each other, and who was related to who.

All in all I give it a 3.5.

[obojetnosc · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bez koma

[Abby · Rating 3 out of 5]

A set of three scenes or short plays about Dubrovnik and its decline in Croatia. A sad but intriguing look into the view of classes and social structures.

[Stipe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Vojnović je izuzetno naporan. Ne zanima me beskonačni opis sobe u kojoj se odvija neka scena kad je radnja tako nenormalno dosadna.