Patriarchy as a theme in Slavko Kolar´s fiction

Rad donosi prikaz patrijarhalnoga načina života u trima novelama Slavka Kolara: Breza, Svoga tela gospodar i Ženidba Imbre Futača. Sam početak donosi Kolarov kratak životopis te prikaz njegova književnoga stvaralaštva. Sljedeći dio posvećen je kratkoj povijesti ženskoga patrijarhata u kojemu se pobliže opisuje život žena u prošlosti, njihova podređenost muškome spolu, kao i borbu za njihovo pravo glasa. Slijedi interpretacija triju novela s očitima primjerima patrijarhalnosti: slučaj dogovorenih brakova, muškarac na čelu kuće, podređenost žena i zanemarivanje njihovih osnovnih potreba. Svojim realističkim prikazom života tadašnjega hrvatskoga sela, Kolar je ostao zapamćen kao jedan od najvećih predstavnika razdoblja moderne hrvatske književnosti. Zbog univerzalnih problema koji se pojavljuju u novelama, one se redovito čitaju i danas te su na samome vrhu hrvatske pripovijedne proze.The paper presents the patriarchal way of life in three novellas of Slavko Kolar: Breza, Svoga tela gospodar and Ženidba Imbre Futača. The beginning brings Kolar's short biography and represent his literary work creativity. The following section is devoted to a brief history of women's patriarchy which describes the lives of women in the past, their subordination to men gender as well as the fight for their right to vote. The following is an interpretation of the three novellas with examples of patriarchy: arranged marriages, male dominance in the home, subordination of women and neglect their basic needs. With his ralistic description of the life in former Croatian village, Kolar stays remember as one of the greatest representative of modern Croatian literature. Because of the problems that appear in novellas, they are still being read today and they are on the top of the Croatian narrative fiction