СЕЋАЊЕ И ЗАБОРАВ У ХРИСТИЋЕВОЈ ПОЕЗИЈИ
REMEMBRANCE AND OBLIVION IN HRISTIĆ’S POETRY

Summary/Abstract: The poetry and essays of Jovan Hristić, the plains of biographical remembrance and cultural memory constantly cross each other and the relation between the two is problematized by the author. Continuous reorganization of memory, both general and personal, is laid into the foundation of modern poetic effort, the way Hristić saw it and used it in practice. The poet’s distance from the “experience learnt by heart” of tradition and his simultaneous praise of commonplaces creates a productive contradiction which is surpassed by a specific lens via which Hristić looks upon the selected space of ancient Greece. Antiquity is not an untouchable model and example, but a space of beginning, from which “all our comparisons” originate. Although he started from Alexandria as the cultural symbol closest to the experience of the contemporary postmodernism, Hristić finds the privileged space recognized in the Hellenic antiquity at its very remembered beginning, when words had been in direct touch with objects. As opposed to the world knowledge, in his characteristic poems of the returning, mature period, what emerges from the fundamental memory or oblivion are the mythical images from the earliest age and they overlay the present scenes from library and big words from sagacious books. What becomes dominant is “life made of small things”, small or elementary beauty that can be “described only by commonplaces”.

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