This work by Marija Jurić Zagorka is written in 12 volumes, it tells about the years of the reign of the Croatian-Hungarian king Matija Korvin, his death, the fight of the widow Beatrice of Naples and her illegitimate son Ivan for the throne at the end of the 15th century.
The main character, Gordana Brezovačka, is torn between her sacred duty to her homeland and her personal feelings, and is thus involved in a series of intrigues over fame and foreign political interests. The beautiful and courageous Gordana reflects the customs of the era, historical events, confronts the wishes and hopes of the victors and the vanquished.
Gordana is the most beautiful piece at King Matthias' court that pretends to be slightly stupid, but is actually a very intelligent woman.
The future heir to the throne, Prince Ivan, his best friend Damir and the Duke of Ilok are crazy about her.
All three are at that time of turmoil and struggle for the throne of great importance for the future of Croatia and she realizes that she must find a way to unite them. And not quarrel. And who does she love? (I won’t tell you it’s my favorite part of the novel you have to read it).
The book is full of intrigues and intrigues of court society, murders, hoaxes, real historical events and those fictional (adapted actions) and outwitting .. In it you can find beautiful quotes and smell the true human values that are forgotten today.
Written in the tradition of a feuilleton novel, "Gordana" shows, perhaps more than her other works, a desire to tackle the great themes of national history. One character is depicted in counterpoint with historical events ranging from the first years of the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) to the Battle of the Mohawk Field (1526). A beautiful and courageous woman is constantly torn between her sacred duty to her homeland and personal feelings, and is thus entangled in intrigues over inheritance, the disappearance of the royal lineage, foreign political interests. In Zagorka's novel treatment, her destiny turns into a mirror in which the customs of the epoch, the paths of historical events are reflected, and the wishes and hopes of the victors and the eaten are confronted.
Zagorka s magical ability to constantly invent new stories like Scheherazade from "One Thousand and One Nights", to introduce new heroes into them, to invent new episodes through which they parade faces dressed in glittering costumes, is stronger than the reader's rational understanding of real historical facts.
In "Gordana - the Queen of Croats", readers encounter an attempt at sentimental and irrational justification and explanation of Croatian history.
Za sve one koji niste prečitali..evo jedan dio
PROROČANSTVO NA KAMENITIM VRATIMA
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