An Approach to the Modernist Tradition: Zrinko Ogresta’s “Washed Out” and its Polish Literary Source

Nikica Gilić

doi:10.31261/PLS.2023.13.08

Published: 2023-07-21

Vol. 13 (2023)

An Approach to the Modernist Tradition: Zrinko Ogresta’s “Washed Out” and its Polish Literary Source

Nikica Gilić

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.31261/PLS.2023.13.08

Abstract

Among many contacts and similarities between Croatian and Polish cinematic and literary modernism, it is quite interesting to note that Zrinko Ogresta adapted the writings of Marek Hłasko in his feature film Washed Out (Isprani). The comparison of Ogresta’s film to the literary source, The Eighth Day of the Week (Ósmy dzień
tygodnia), before any extensive discussions of wider context, should ascertain the answer to a more elementary question — how close is the story of Ogresta’s film to its Polish literary inspiration?

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modernism , adaptation , Marek Hłasko , Eighth Day of the Week , Zrinko Ogresta , Washed Out

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Gilić, N. (2023). An Approach to the Modernist Tradition: Zrinko Ogresta’s “Washed Out” and its Polish Literary Source. Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich [Translations of Slavic Literatures], 13, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.31261/PLS.2023.13.08

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Nikica Gilić

nikica.gilic123@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4009-2013

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University of Zagreb Croatia

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Nikica Gilić | Ph. D., full professor of film studies at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, was born in Split, Croatia (20.09.1973). In recent years he mostly concentrates on the study of local and regional film and animated film. He was the editor in chief of Hrvatski filmski ljetopis (2010—22) and the editor in chief of the bilingual collection of articles 1972—2022. Pedeset godina svjetskog festivala animiranog filma — Animafesta Zagreb / Fifty Years of World Festival of Animated Film — Animafest Zagreb
(Zagreb, 2022). He is one of five editors of Global Animation Theory. International Perspectives at Animafest Zagreb (New York, 2019) published by Bloomsbury. His recent articles include: “The Rats Woke Up — On Figures of Dissent in Belgrade’s Underbelly in Pavlović’s Vision.” SIC. Journal of literature, culture and literary translation 12, no. 1, 2021., “Recepcija francuskoga filma u Hrvatskoj.” Emisija i recepcija. Uz 80. godinu rođenja Mirka Tomasovića, edited by Cvijeta Pavlović. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2020., 139—59. (with Adrian Pelc), and „Modernizm a film autorski lat sześćdziesiątych w Chorwacji”, Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication, Vol XXV, No 34, 2019, 148—5.

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