BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN AND MONTENEGRIN LITERATURE AMONG IVAN FRANKO’S CREATIVE INTERESTS

Abstract

The paper deals with scholarly-critical works, literary-artistic translations, touching upon the issue raised, literary studies and translation studies research based on the declared and related issues (translations, figurative analogies, other forms of implementing the foreign-language discourse, actively developed and implemented by I. Franko himself). The focus of the study is Luca Jovović, whose first publication – the storiette Hayduk y (orig.: “Hajduci”, „Luča” magazine, 1895) – I. Franko translated and and included a literary theoretical reference information about the author. Ivan Franko’s creative translation work in this area is not so quantitatively large, but it gives an opportunity to illustrate a number of important theoretical issues, has a significant heuristic potential, and is of a great theoretical value, which, by the way, has provided the basis for a number of researchers to make important theoretical conclusions. In his well-known article, “Internationalism and Nationalism in Modern Literatures”, I. Franko, exemplifying, in particular, on the Montenegrin Luka Jovović, substantiated the idea of proximity of the national in form creativity of writers to universal human feelings, viz. such a writer will be simultaneously understandable and interesting not only for his countrymen, but also for the whole civilized world, for everyone will find in his writings, despite the unusual nature and national originality of their form, the same feelings, doubts, suffering, sympathy and antipathies constituting the essence of the educated personality of his/her time. The issues of intertextuality, literary and academic ties, contacts occupy a place of importance in the research. In view of this, the next step, i.e. study of the issue in question, could well be an analysis of I. Franko’s translation of Luka Jovović’s storiette Hajduci , based on verifying the original and its Ukrainian version. Key words : discourse, translation, literature, storiette, essence, form, national, universal.