Crystallisation of the Spiritual Portrait and Fragments of the Explicity Poetics of Ivana Brlić Mazuranić

Abstract

This paper, by reconstruction of the life and work of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, identifies numerous intersections and influences, inner connections and recognisable affinities of the Mažuranić family. Following her development and artistic maturation, from her early works to masterpieces that made her known in Europe, the paper analyses essays in which Brlic Mažuranić clearly pointed out her views of creation and art. Lead by the ancient principle of Kalokagathia, where truth, goodness and beauty form an inseparable unity, the famous writer has, in rare passages about the phenomenon of creation, emphasised the profound humanistic spirit as a mainstay of every true artist. That is confirmed by the very work of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, which overlaps the explicit and the immanent poetics of the author.