MILJENKO SMOJE: IL CRONISTA DI SPALATO, OVVERO IL RAPPORTO TRA PERIFERIA E CENTRO TRA CAMBIAMENTI STORICI, POLITICI E DI MENTALITÀ

The purpose of this study is to examine the Miljenko Smoje’s literary world. First of all I analyzed the particularities of Split, the city where the author lived all his life long. To better understand the mentality of the people living there I decided to follow three main paths: the historical, the geographical, and the cultural one. Infact without a deep comprehension of the culture it is even impossible to really understand the smojan work. I have focussed the attention on the concept of conflict, considered as a purposeful and inclusive attitude recognized not only in spalatian mentality, but even in all Mediterranean area. Then I described the history of spalatian dialectal literature since Marko Uvodić Splićanin till feralovci. This part of the study has been dedicated in particular to the poetics analysis of the considered authors. Finally I analyzed Miljenko Smoje’s life and work, firstly across its biography and secondly by a careful study of the most important literary works such us Naše Malo misto (Our Little place) and Velo misto (Big place). In this last part of the study I wanted to demonstrate the importance of Smoje’s work inside the cultural and literary develop not only of Split, but of Croatia and Yugoslavia in general, emphasizing and underling that the use of medias (newspapers and television) have contributed to the success of this author, very popular, but still really undiscovered and poorly studied by Croatian critics.