Reception of the novel Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića (The marvellous adventures of Hlapić the apprentice) by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

U gotovo sto godina postojanja romana Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića (1913) Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić zabilježeno je isto toliko izdanja, što ga čini najobjavljivanijim hrvatskim dječjim romanom. Njegova važnost u hrvatskoj dječjoj književnosti možda se još više očituje u ulogama koje su mu pridavane i u titulama kojima je odlikovan: prvi hrvatski dječji roman, roman paradigma, roman od kojega sve počinje... Ipak, tek kroz kritičko čitanje postaje očito koliko su velika i neistražena područja koja još stoje na putu razumijevanju ovoga kultnoga djela. Da bi se uopće pristupilo kritičkom čitanju, bilo je potrebno načiniti reviziju recepcije ovog romana koja razotkriva slijepe pjege motrišta s kojih je roman proučavan. Uočavanje tih slijepih pjega pokazuje se presudnim za utvrđivanje osnovnog teksta Čudnovatih zgoda šegrta Hlapića.In nearly a hundred years of existence, with as many printed editions, the novel Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića (1913) by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić is the most published Croatian children’s novel. It may be that its importance in Croatian children’s literature is even more emphasized by the roles attributed to it and by the titles it has been honoured: the first Croatian children’s novel, paradigm novel, the novel from which it all starts... Only when one begins to read it critically, it becomes clear that up to now unresearched spheres stand in a way of understanding of this cultic literary work. In a light of such a reading offered by this contribution, the view on the former reception of this novel is being changed, because it is shown that from an array of many different perspectives from which Hlapić was attempted to be viewed, the most interesting are its blind spots. What is more, it seems that these spots also share something that has been left out of the range of the so far studies