Conversation and oral expression in the works of contemporary Croatian writers

Abstract

Specific expression of the authors' who used particular urban speech of young people in their novels was first observed in the prose of 1970s, but it continued during 1980s and 1990s. Authors' whose novels have been published after 2000 have also used specific stylization of conversation and oral expression in their novels however, not only to emphasize the differences in speech between adults and young people, but also in the speech of the characters in the novel. The starting point in the analysis of those elements is a recently published Anthology of Contemporary Croatian Prose, edited by renowned literary critic Jagna Pogačnik. Namely, this Anthology also includes the analysis of conversation and oral expression elements in the works of authors such as Edo Popović, Renato Baretić and Ante Tomić.