284 KB24 KB198220252016Maver, Igorštevilka:1/2letnik:49str. 53-61ISSN:0567-784XCOBISSID:62761314URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-181YWIX7enZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakulteteActa neophilologica"Talking about O'Dwyer"angleška književnostLiterarne študijeNew Zealand literaturenovozelandska književnostStead, C. K., 1932-vojnawarwarliteratureThe Maori and the Pakeha in C. K. Stead's novel Talking about O'Dwyer|The article focuses on a recent novel by the contemporary New Zealand author C.K. Stead, Talking about O'Dwyer. It represents an indictment of war per se, war as a collective madness and its consequences for the life destinies of every single individual caught in it. The Second World War and the independence war in Croatia in the 1990s are minutely described and juxtaposed in this work: both brought to the people, as all wars, suffering and death and have radically changed and marked their lives and relationships. C.K. Stead writes about four locales in very different time periods, New Zealand, Oxford, and especially Croatia and Greece, where the two wars that affect the lives of the protagonists took placeČlanek se osredinja na novejši roman sodobnega novozelandskega avtorja C.K. Steada, Talking about O'Dwyer. Ta predstavlja obsodbo vojne per se, vojne kot kolektivne blaznosti in njenih posledic za življenjsko usodo vsakega posameznika ujetega v njej. Druga svetovna vojna in vojna za neodvisnost Hrvaške v devetdesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja sta v tem romanu podrobno opisani in primerjalno obravnavani: obe prineseta protagonistom, kot vse vojne, trpljenje in smrt in radikalno spremenijo njihova življenja in medosebne odnose. C. K. Stead sugestivno opisuje štiri lokacije v različnih časovnih obdobjih, v Novi Zelandiji, Oxfordu in posebej na hrvaškem in v Grčiji, kjer se odvijata dve vojni, ki močno spremenita življenja ljudiTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta