Evaluation of Dalmatia’s Cultural Space and the Yugoslav Discourse of the ‘Third Way’: Miroslav Krleža’s Essay The Gold and Silver of Zadar

Abstract

The article discusses the role played in the early 1950s by M. Krleža’s essay titled The Gold and Silver of Zadar (1951), as well as the circumstances of its emergence. In addition to the text itself, the analysis also encompasses Krleža’s unpublished notes from his trip to Dalmatia, his scholarly production, journalism and political discourse of that time (in the light of Krleža’s earlier literary works and essays). The aim of the paper is to indicate the ways in which cultural heritage was processed to semioticise space (Dalmatia within Yugoslavia) in the context of articulating certain political visions.