Dučićev i Crnjanskov Pariz
Paris Of Ducic And Crnjanski

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author compares perceptions of Paris of Ducic and Crnjanski. Since the two also function as synecdoches of the Serbian literature Modern, as well as the literature of the Serbian post-war Modernism, their relationship is, by its very nature, a polemic one. It is obvious in their perception of Paris: for Ducic it is, in the first place, embodiment of the overall human progress, while for Crnjanski in the centre of Paris is an urban awareness understood as series of techniques related to establishment and maintenance of power in the city. Du~i} is interested in the Paris toponymes symbolizing non-temporal (the Sene) and traditional humanistic values such as civilization, erudition, wisdom (Notre Dame); Crnjanski, on the contrary, hybridizes interest in temporary, dynamic, with non-temporal located at the city edges, i.e. in the non-urban spaces. For Crnjanski in the centre of Paris are not values of civilization (as they are for Ducic), but three specific urban aspects: money as the measure of all values, press as a mechanism of constructing images of present and past, and the fashion, as an urban pattern ruling the urban/ non-urban opposition. Thus, from the perspective of Crnjanski’s perception of Paris, Ducic’s pre-war perception of the same city appears as an obsolete and non-urban.

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