IDEOLOGY AND LITERARY CRITICISM. THE CASE OF VINKO NIKOLIĆ

Književnokritička praksa za četiri ratne godine i postojanja Nezavisne Države Hrvatske (1941. – 1945.) umnogome je nastavak prijeratne kritičke djelatnosti. Ipak, promijenjene su političke i društvene okolnosti posljedovale i izvjesnim novim pogledom na status i narav književnosti i književne kritike, na nedvosmisleni naputak čitateljima kako treba pojmiti novu zbilju i nove odnose u srazu ideologije i estetike. Slučaj Vinka Nikolića svjedoči o napetosti između zagovaranja ideologema i vjere u ljepotu i nedodirljivost umjetničkog djela. Kako prevladati temeljni sraz tendencije i estetike i je li to uopće bilo moguće u zbilji opterećenoj ratnim zbivanjima i određenim ideološkim zabludama – pokušalo se pokazati pregledom autorovih književnokritičkih prikaza konkretnih književnih djela te eseja o naravi i potrebi izgradnje nove nacionalne književnosti.During the four years of war and existence of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945), literary criticism represented in many ways the continuation of the pre-war criticism. However, the changed political and social circumstances have also resulted in a certain new perspective to the status and nature of literature and literary criticism, and to the unambiguous instruction for the readers regarding the perception of the new reality and new relations within this collision of ideology and esthetics. The case of Vinko Nikolić gives evidence on the tension between advocating the ideologeme and faith in the beauty and inviolability of the work of art. How to overcome the fundamental collision of the tendency and esthetics? Was it even possible in the reality encumbered both by war events and by certain ideological misapprehensions? The answers to these questions were attempted to be found by the overview of author\u27s reviews on some concrete literary works and of his essays on the nature and need for the development of the new national literature