СИНИШA КОРДИЋ У ДОДИРУ И У СУКОБУ С AВAНГAРДОМ
SINIŠA KORDIĆ IN TOUCH AND CONFLICT WITH AVANT-GARDE

Summary/Abstract: Siniša Kordic was a less significant writer who was very active in the literature of the 1920s. After the analysis of his activities in the journal Svetski pregled (World Review), of his poems, essays and his novel Neobičan svet (Unusual World), the author of this paper came to the conclusion that he — although belonging to the generation and ideas of the then avant-garde — was outside and against it in his poetics and practice, which was not rare at that time. He did not accept an essential principle of avant-garde work: the principle of chaotic spontaneity which implied awareness of the destabilized individual and the chaos of living. Therefore, certain intentions in some Kordic’s works are mutually exclusive or incompatible. In his essays, he advocated Bergsonian intuitivist and vitalist philosophy of art, his novel Neobičan svet represents a model o f an abstract expressionist creation with a disperse composition and symbolic characters; but in his daily critical reviews he challenged typical avant-garde works, and in his poetry cherished a Ducic-like manner of rhetorical lyric poetry with the linked verse.

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