Vremenske i prostorne dimenzije sjećanja i mašte u priči Ulfa Starka „Tada sam bio jednostavno Ulf“

Sažetak

The article outlines time and space dimensions of memory and imagination as compositional basis for the autobiographical character’s self-presentation on way to literature. Time and space methodology has been applied in the article. The fictional time and space in the story enable the formation of category raw memory – imagination – memory metaphors – time of occasion – recollection. The author’s and main character’s identical names, specified age, diary dates, similarity of certain miniplot episodes in Stark’s works suggest analyzing the story in the context of fictional autobiographies about childhood. The article deals with artistic peculiarities of Ulf Stark’s memory work on selecting childhood and teenage experience fragments and their further organization into plot. The memory metaphors enlightening the central points of talent emergence have been analyzed. The emotional „ultimate tension field“ (Lejeune) has been emphasized, which provides for Ulf’s imagination priority (at eight – thirteen years) and his first trials of creating fictional images (at fourteen – fifteen). The fragments about literary self-awareness in the farthest point of childhood, reference to the signs of his literary nature and first fixed literary experience prompt to treat Stark’s story „Then I was simply Ulf“ as a genre modification of the writer’s autobiography about childhood.