Pokonać epidemię, czyli o dekadentyzmie w literaturze serbskiej (na przykładzie powieści Strast Davida S. Pijadego)
To Defeat an Epidemic, or on Decadence in Serbian Literature (the Case of David S. Pijade’s Novel Strast)
Author(s): Sylwia Nowak-BajcarSubject(s): Cultural history, Novel, Serbian Literature, Philosophy of Language, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Hermeneutics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Naturalism; Decadence; Eros and Thanatos; femme fatale; homoeroticism; Serbian literature of the early twentieth century;
Summary/Abstract: Since its publication in 1921, David S. Pijade’s Strast (The Passion) has been classified as a naturalist novel, contrary to its themes: passion as subordinated to the fatalism of nature: Eros and Thanatos, the hedonistic experience of an ‚intense moment’, the theme of sacred lesbian love. The article indicates that this classification is a mistake stemming from the lack of the decadent movement in Serbia, either as a literary current, or a worldview. A new reading proposed in this article calls for a revision of persistent views about the shape of Serbian modernism in the early twentieth century.
Journal: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Issue Year: 12/2017
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 223-233
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Polish
