Поезија Васка Попе као предмет негативног критичког вредновања
Vasko Popa's Poetry as an Object of Negative Critical Assessment

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the genesis and the types of critical reactions regarding Vasko Popa’s poetry. In that sense, it recalls that the nega­tive critical treatment of this poetry is based, on the one hand – on the misunderstanding of modern poetry, and on the other – on the ideological interpretive procedure and evaluation criteria. Empha­sised non-literary political criteria were first used during the conflicts between the so-called ‘realists’ and ‘modernists’ in the period of the 1950s, and then at a time when significant works of Serbian literature – in foreign academic reception – were actualised in the context of the war events of the last decade of the 20th century, and with the goal – in accordance with the malignant idea of unilateral Serbian guilt in Western political discourse – of ascribing Serbian literature the role of instigator of nationalistic politics.

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