THE NOVEL POSLJEDNJI STIPANČIĆI BY VJENCESLAV NOVAKIN THE TEACHING OF SECONDARY SCHOOL

U povijesti hrvatske književnosti Vjenceslav Novak predstavljen je kao realistički pisac primorske sredine, s naglaskom na njegovo podrijetlo, rad u školi, materijalne životne uvjete i tematiku koju je uglavnom uzimao iz stvarnoga svijeta. Novak je objektivan realistički pripovjedač jer ne uzdiže ni ne prezire, no istodobno i socijalno osjećajan jer je prvi u hrvatski realizam unio ljubav prema obitelji i jeziku kojim je stvarao roman pod naslovom Posljednji Stipančići. Očito je ljepota odabranih riječi pridonijela da se tijekom cijeloga pripovijedanja porodične pripovijesti o Stipančićima osjećaju sigurni potezi piščeva pera, bilo da o njoj pripovijeda kronološki ili retrospektivno. Kritika realizma nije imala razumijevanja za ogroman Novakov opus kao rezultat jedne osebujne umjetničke stvaralačke snage. Moderna hrvatska književna kritika prikazala je rast Novakova opusa kroz četiri koncentrična kruga. Budući da je svako književno djelo poseban suodnos svijeta koji umjetnik prikazuje i jezika kojim o tom svijetu piše, logična je povezanost Novakove socijalne i jezične osjećajnosti dok je pripovijedao životnu priču obitelji svojega doba. U suvremenoj književnoj kritici roman Posljednji Stipančići proglašen je najboljim romanom hrvatskoga realizma, zastupljen je u srednjoškolskoj nastavi književnosti, a prošle školske godine i na državnoj maturi.In the history of Croatian literature, Vjenceslav Novak is presented as a realistic writer of the littoral environment, with an emphasis on his origins, work at school, material living conditions and the themes that he took mostly from the real world. Novak was an objective realistic narrator because he did not exalt or despise, yet at the same time, he was socially sensitive because he was the first one to bring his love for family and language into Croatian realism, with which he created a novel titled Posljednji Stipančići (The Last Stipančićs). It is obvious that the beauty of the selected words contributed to the fact that throughout the narration of the family story about the Stipančićs, the safe strokes of the writer’s pen are felt, whether he talks about it chronologically or retrospectively. The criticism of the realism had no understanding of Novak’s huge opus as a result of a distinctive artistic creative force. Modern Croatian literary criticism has shown the growth of Novak’s opus over four concentric circles. Since each literary work is a special correlation between the world that the writer depicts and the language in which he writes about that world, the logical connection is Novak’s social and linguistic sensitivity as he tells the life story of a family of his time. In contemporary literary criticism, the novel The Last Stipančićs was proclaimed as the best novel of Croatian realism, it was present in secondary school literature classes, and last school year and at the state matura