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The Adaptation of Ivana Šojat’s Modernist Novel 'Unterstadt'

Written in 2010, "Unterstadt" is a modernist novel compiled and by Ivana Šojat, the Osijek-based authoress who selects interesting but quietened topics while exploring the archives and a true history of events that have happened in Eastern Croatia. The novel is a familial saga portraying a quadruple of the main female characters throughout different generations: it is a narrative of dreams, hopes, philosophies and tragedies, founded on the time in which each respective generation spent its life span. Likewise, it is a story of faith and free will of the protagonists who have testified to a change in politics on the ex-Yugoslavian territory, from the First World War up to the initial decades of the 21st century. They have made their right or wrong choices, having made their life paths different, impassable, or even perilous. Thus, the novel is intertwined with the intermezzi of silence and untold tales, repercusionally unfabulated because of a fear that affected each generation of the family. Very well-received and acclaimed by the critics and readership alike, "Unterstadt" was also adapted in a theatrical play, being dramatized by Nives Madunić Barišić and Zlatko Sviben as an Osijek Croatian National Theater’s production, having premiered on July 29, 2012, the first day of the annual Osijek Summer of Culture manifestation. As the production was an extremely demanding one, the paper will examine a contemporary theory and practice of dramatization and theatrical adaptation, exemplified and presented by an analysis of this novel’s adaptation into a rewarded masterpiece of the Croatian theater, complemented by the elements of New Historicism, fragments of Miroslav Krleža’s drama "In the Camp" ("U logoru"), and the authentic historical documents ever since the First World War up to nowadays.

Ivana Šojat ; modernist novel

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