CRIME NOVELS FOR CHILDREN BY HRVOJE HOVAČEVIĆ

Svrha ovog diplomskog rada je analizirati sedam romana Hrvoja Kovačevića, a to su Tajna Ribljeg Oka (1996), Tajna Crne kutije (1998), Tajna Zlatnog Zuba (2000), Tajna mačje šape (2002, 2006), Tajna graditelja straha (2003), Tajna Zantara Vidovnjaka (2012) i Tajna najboljih prijatelja (2018). Romani su povezani već samim naslovom. Svaki od njih sadrži jednu (ili više) tajni koje glavni lik mora riješiti. Kovačević je portretirao šest glavnih likova dječaka u dobi od jedanaest do trinaest godina. Samo dva romana imaju istog glavnog lika, a to je Kovačevićev prvi roman, Tajna Ribljeg Oka i roman Tajna mačje šape. U uvodnom poglavlju riječ je o dječjim kriminalističkim romanima, zatim slijedi analiza likova koji se nalaze u tajnama, a to su glavni istražitelji, analiza dječjih (ne)očekivanih ljubavi te glavnog zločinca. Nakon poglavlja o likovima slijedi poglavlje koje opisuje tijek radnje romana. Riječ je o postupku otkrivanja sitnih tragova koje je Kovačević ostavio u romanu kako bi pomogao istražiteljima riješiti tajne. Na kraju samog rada bit će riječ o kompoziciji romana te o narativnim, stilskim i jezičnim karakteristikama romana. Hrvoje Kovačević piše svoje romane na hrvatskom standardnom jeziku, a u romanima u kojima su glavni likovi trinaestogodišnjaci koristi se funkcionalno žargonom i tuđicama.The main goal of this paper is to analyze seven novels written by Croatian author Hrvoje Kovačević, and those are Tajna Ribljeg Oka (1996), Tajna Crne kutije (1998), Tajna Zlatnog Zuba (2000), Tajna mačje šape(2002, 2006), Tajna graditelja straha (2003), Tajna Zantara Vidovnjaka (2012) i Tajna najboljih prijatelja (2018). The novels are connected by their name, they all have the word mystery in them. Each of them contains one, or more, mysteries in them which must be solved by the main investigator. Kovačević portrayed six main characters at the age of eleven to thirteen. Only two novels has the same character, his first novel, Tajna Ribljeg Oka, and Tajna mačje šape. In the introductory chapter it will be talked about crime novels for children. After that chapter, the main characters will be analyzed, along them their non-expected romantic partners and the main criminals at the end. After the chapter about the main characters comes up a chapter about secret clues in each novel that Kovačević hid in the novels to help his main investigators. At the end of this paper it will be talked about composition in novels, and the last chapter deals with narrative, language and stylistic features of the novels. Hrvoje Kovačević writes on Croatian standard language, but in novels which portrays thirteen years old children he uses language with jargon and foreign English language words