Literatura fantastyczna : przypadek chorwacki

Abstract

The article synthetically presents the circumstances and conditions of the evolution of speculative fiction in Croatia, its place and role in the literary-historical process, as well as its significance for the evolution of Croatian literature in later years. Croatian speculative fiction is something of a phenomenon in the local literary/ cultural space: it is identified in nearly all theoretical, critical or literary-historical studies with only one generation of writers publishing their texts in the 1970s. The activity of the so-called “fantasts” (fantastičari), also named “borgesians” or creators of “young prose,” was an expression of opposition towards the socially-engaged literature (stvarnosna proza), dominating at that time.