Između moderne i avangarde – Himnika ulice Tina Ujevića
Between modernism and avant-garde – Tin Ujević’s Himnika ulice

Author(s): Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković
Subject(s): Scientific Life
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is Tin Ujević’s inter-mingling of modernity and avant-garde, above all bohemian retreats and avant-garde activities, which the author finds in his feuilletons, essays and travelogues. The simultaneously opposing views seem to be most evident in Ujević’s understanding and experience of the city (for example in the text Himnika ulice) which, on the one hand, continues the modernist anti-urbanism in which the city (street) is an area unsuitable for the fulfillment of existential and spiritual needs, a place of no-home or a broken home and no-domestication, and on the other hand, access to the city (street) is close to futuristic statements, the city denotes a space suitable for civilization changes and creation of the New Man – an idea that is typical of avant-garde projects and known in many programme texts. The petrifying, antidynamic, stagnant energy of the street adopts a narrator-heroartist who only informs about the desire for activity, does not prove, apply, but waits that the changes happen, come true and waits while contemplating urban life and performing lamentation (lelekanje).

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