Elements of grotesque in Matoš' symbolic novels

Matoševe novele sakupljene su u tri zbirke (Iverje, Novo iverje i Umorne priče), a hrvatska knjiţevna historiografija klasificira ih na razne načine. Za ovaj rad značajne su novele u kojima prevladava simbolistička poetika, često proţeta fantastikom te bizarnim i nevjerojatnim sadrţajem s dominacijom likova nesvakidašnjih neurastenika, marginalaca i osamljenika, sklonih somnabulnim psihičkim stanjima. U takvim Matoševim novelama dolazi do sudara izmeĎu dvaju svjetova, zbiljskog i izmišljenog, a u tom procjepu otvara se prostor prodoru groteske. Stoga se simbolističke novele „Moć savjesti“, „Camao“, „Miš“, „Iglasto čeljade“, „Samotna noć“ i „Duševni čovjek“ u ovom radu interpretiraju kroz prizmu teorije groteske G. R. Tamarina. U navedenim novelama Matoš spaja fantastično, bizarno i disharmonično na jedan sasvim svoj – harmoničan način, pa se upravo u tom „spoju nespojivog“ realizira groteska. Efekti groteske ostvaruju se ponekad na sadrţajnom (tematskom, motivskom) planu, a ponekad na formalnom planu (stilskim izraţajnim sredstvima, neobičnim opisima tjelesnog izgleda i pejzaţa, iznenadnim obratima radnje itd.). U ovom se radu interpretacija temelji na iznalaţenju nesklada, proturječja i neočekivanih spajanja kojima se na formalnom i sadrţajnom planu u navedenim Matoševim novelama postiţe efekt groteske.Matoš’ novels are summarized in three collections (Iverje, Novo iverje and Umorne priče) and Croatian historiography classifies them in different ways. In the context of this work the standout novels are ones dominated by symbolic poetry often interspersed with fantastical, bizarre and unbelievable content. They are often dominated by non everyday characters who are often neurasthenics, marginalized people and loners prone to somnambulistic mental states. In those novels the real world and fantasy collide and opens the door into the grotesque. Thus the novels presented in this work „Moć savjesti“, „Camao“, „Miš“, „Iglasto čeljade“, „Samotna noć“ and „Duševni čovjek“ are interpreted through the theory of grotesque by G.R. Tamarin. In the mentioned novels Matoš combines the fantastical, bizarre and disharmonious in his own personal harmonic way so that in that combination of the uncombinable the grotesque is realized. The grotesque effect is brought about sometimes in themes and motifs and other times with literary devices or the odd descriptions of human bodies and landscape or sudden twists and so on. In this work the interpretation is based on the presentation of disharmony, contradictions and unexpected combinations in which Matoš’ novels accomplish the grotesque effect