Josip Pavičić and the Social Realist Children’s Novel

Vrijeme neposredno nakon 1945. godine rijetko se spominje u povijestima hrvatske dječje književnosti, što je u očitom raskoraku prema važnosti tog razdoblja. Ona se očituje i u revolucionarnoj dinamici zbivanja na tom području i u dalekosežnom postavljanju književnih temelja za daljnji razvoj dječje književnosti u Hrvatskoj. Odmah nakon rata iskristaliziralo se nekoliko imena koja će predstavljati kanon jugoslavenske dječje književnosti, a iz Hrvatske je jedno od redovito spominjanih imena ono Josipa Pavičića. Razlog tomu nije samo činjenica da je Josip Pavičić pisao naglašeno socijalno angažiranu dječju književnost prije Drugoga svjetskog rata, već on predstavlja jednog od rijetkih, izuzetno aktivnih i plodnih autora, koji su se odmah po završetku rata, što zbog književnog iskustva, izgrađenih stavova ili osobnog vitaliteta, mogli javiti čak i duljim proznim formama. Trebat će proći određeno vrijeme da se profilira posve nova generacija dječjih pisaca koji sa stvaranjem započinju tek nakon Drugoga svjetskog rata, tako da je u prvim poratnim godinama književna djelatnost počivala na predratnoj gardi dječjih pisaca. Upravo će književni postupci koje Josip Pavičić uvodi u dječji roman i u dječju pripovijetku itekako obilježiti daljnji razvoj obje književne vrste. Ovaj će rad pokušati odrediti na koji je način i do koje mjere Pavičić implementirao socrealistički književni postupak u dječju književnost.The period immediately following 1945 is rarely mentioned in the anthologies of Croatian children’s literature; this stands in discrepancy with the importance of this period. Immediately after World War II, several authors, who were to become representatives of the canon of Yugoslav children’s literature, stood out. Among Croatian authors, Josip Pavičić was almost regularly mentioned. The reason for this lies not only in the fact that in the period prior to World War II, Pavičić wrote socially engaged literature, but also in the fact that in the period immediately following the war, Pavičić was an exceptionally active and prolific author, who, owing to his literary experience, developed attitudes and personal vitality, and was thus able to publish more extensive works. In this period, there were not many such authors. A certain period of time had to pass before a completely new generation of children’s writers, who started writing after the war, came out of age. In the first years of the aftermath, literary activity in Croatia still relied on pre-war children’s writers. The literary procedures that Pavičić introduced into the children’s novel and children’s story were the ones that exercised a strong influence on the further development of both genres. The objective of this work is to examine in which ways and to which extent Pavičić implemented the social realist literary procedure into children’s literature