Slika sveta propuštena kroz unutrašnje sočivo – Grozdana Olujić kao pisac intervjua

Abstract

The paper focuses on the interviews that Grozdana Olujić took in the middle of the last century with literary authors and critics; the interviews have been in the shadow of Olujić’s fairy tales and novels. Twenty‑seven interviews, published in the book entitled Pisci o sebi [Authors about themselves] (1959), represent an invaluable material for the literary history and offer a detailed description of social and cultural circumstances during the post‑war period. Although Grozdana Olujić dedicated the book to the future generations, as a record of an era and a mentality in it, she unintentionally left some clues about herself. The themes she chose, the way she conducted interviews and wrote interview transcriptions reflect the thematics and linguo‑stylistic characteristics that can be recognized in her later literary work ‒ existentialistic way of thinking about the meaning of life, about the purpose of intellectual engagement; lyric elements in prose, introspection, reminiscences, citations.