ЛИРСКИ „ЖЕНСКИ“ РЕИНТЕРПРЕТАЦИИ НА МИТОВИТЕ ЗА ОДИСЕЈ (ВО ПЕСНИТЕ НА АНА ДИМИШКОВСКА И ЛИДИЈА ДИМКОВСКА)
Lyrical Female Interpretations of the Odysseus Myths in Ana Dimishkovskaʼs and Lidija Dimkovskaʼs Poems

Summary/Abstract: In contemporary Macedonian poetry there are several poem cycles based on the reinterpretation of myths, and on this occasion we would like to single out as paradigmatic Ana Dimiškovskaʼs „Odisej“ („Odysseus“) cycle from her 1994 poetry collection Socvetija (Umbels), as well as Lidija Dimkovskaʼs „Tajnite soneti na Penelopa“ („Penelopeʼs Secret Sonnets“) cycle appearing in her 1998 collection Izgrizani nokti (Bitten-down Nails). Ana Dimiškovskaʼs „Odisej“ cycle is comprised of five poems, the lyrical subjects of which are the five key female characters from Homerʼs Odyssey: Anticlea (Odysseusʼ mother), Nausicaa (King Alcinousʼ daughter), Circe (the powerful sorceress that turns Odysseusʼ companions into animals), Calypso (the lovely nymph offering immortality to Odysseus), and Penelope (Odysseusʼ faithful wife). Apart from the unifying „female“ perspective of all poems in the cycle - each poem reconstructs the story from the viewpoint of one of the female characters - it is peculiar that the lyrical subjects all address Odysseus. Lidija Dimkovskaʼs „Tajnite soneti na Penelopa“ cycle offers the readers an „apocryphal“ lyrical observation of the inner world of Odysseusʼ wife. The five sonnets are an expression of the revolt of a Penelope that will not (and cannot) accept the situation of „eternal waiting“.

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