PERCEPTION, EMPATHY AND THE ISSUE OF CREDIBILITY OF LITERARY CHARACTERS

U radu se istražuju premise tekstualne (literarne) uvjerljivosti identiteta likova Krležine drame U agoniji kroz artikulaciju njihovih međusobnih odnosa, njihova odnosa prema recipijentu te koncepta samorazumijevanja. Ključevi opisane tekstualne provjere pronalaze se u perceptivnim momentima tvorbe identiteta (percepcija; denaturalizirana percepcija; historizirana percepcija) te empatijskom modusu mišljenja koji se istražuje iz perspektive likova drame te odnosa čitatelja i teksta.This paper explores the premises of textual (literary) persuasiveness of identity of characters within the textual world of Krleža’s play In Agony across the articulation of their mutual relations, their appeal to the recipients and the concept of self-understanding. Keys to the described textual verification are found in perceptive aspects of identity construction (perception; denaturalised perception; historicised perception) and within the realm of empathy, seen as a process of thinking, which is analysed from the point of view of characters and from the broader standpoint which takes into account the phenomenon of literary reception