Moving towards the sun : Vladan Desnica’s "Proljeća Ivana Galeba" and Camus’ Mediterranean spirit

This paper analyzes similarities between Vladan Desnica’s novel Proljeća Ivana Galeba and Camus’ works, especially his lyrical essays (Nuptials) and the novel A Happy Death. The author tries to single out the last two chapters of Desnica’s novel as the key to un derstanding his existentialist philosophy (this in turn is interpreted by referring to Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus). Structural problems are analyzed as an expression of deep semantic and philosophical determinants. The relationship between Desnica and Camus is not established with the aim of proving borrowing or imitation of some lite rary concepts, but in order to emphasize the sources of common preoccupations that refer to the Mediterranean idioms, especially the so-called sunny thought.

U radu se analiziraju srodnosti između romana Vladana Desnice Proljeća Ivana Galeba i Camusovih djela, napose lirskih eseja (Pirovanje, Ljeto) te romana Sretna smrt. Autor izdvaja dva zadnja poglavlja Desničina romana kao ključ za razumijevanje njegove egzistencijalističke filozofije (to se pak tumači referirajući se na Camusov Mit o Sizifu). Strukturni se problemi analiziraju kao izraz dubinskih semantičkih i filozofskih odrednica. Odnos Desnice i Camusa nije postavljen s ciljem da se dokaže posuđivanje ili imitacija nekih literarnih koncepata, nego da se naglase izvori zajedničkih preokupacija koje se referiraju na mediteranske idiome, napose na tzv. sunčanu misao.