<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures [Slike brez obrazov] the characters go astray or get into the attraction of adventures and set off for a journey. The spiritual and identity shifts can be interpreted along these eternal human desires as well. A patchwork of remembering and forgetting, the internal journeys of identity preservation, spontaneous or forced assimilation, tolerance and all kinds of politics-induced human deformations are depicted in the novel. The text traces the roles of the journey defined by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant such as the search for justice, peace, immortality and finding the spiritual center. This study examines how the concrete physical journey changes into an internal road determining the evolution of personality. </p></abstract>

In Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures [Slike brez obrazov] the characters go astray or get into the attraction of adventures and set off for a journey. The spiritual and identity shifts can be interpreted along these eternal human desires as well. A patchwork of remembering and forgetting, the internal journeys of identity preservation, spontaneous or forced assimilation, tolerance and all kinds of politics-induced human deformations are depicted in the novel. The text traces the roles of the journey defined by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant such as the search for justice, peace, immortality and finding the spiritual center. This study examines how the concrete physical journey changes into an internal road determining the evolution of personality.

Quo Vadis, Homo Viator? / Journeys in Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania) Department of Humanities

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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In Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures [Slike brez obrazov] the characters go astray or get into the attraction of adventures and set off for a journey. The...

Quo Vadis, Homo Viator? / Journeys in Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 113 - 121

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0040

Keywords
20th-century history, migration, travellers, identity

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Quo Vadis, Homo Viator? / Journeys in Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 113 - 121

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0040

Keywords20th-century history, migration, travellers, identity

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
20th-century history, migration, travellers, identity