Author(s): Dr Mirjana M. Bečejski / Language(s): Serbian
Issue: 21/2023
The research has been focused on the monograph Miteme i poteme Tomasa Mana, by academician Radomir V. Ivanovic, the first book of the opus, which was the result of an analytical one-decade project, called by the author The Four Sides of World Literature (2002–2012). Pointing to the solid logic of the content, which is the result of methodological experience, the author of the paper tries to establish not only the meaning and relationship of myth and poet but, also, Ivanović's mythological, aesthetic, and theoretical supports. Using the term myth, Ivanović depicts traditional realistic prose, based on mythology, and dedicates the first part of the monograph to them, while poems, in which a new connection between reality and creative myth was analyzed, were dealt with in the second part of it. Ivanovic took the novel Doctor Faustus as an example of a transitional form, and a mythological poem. Ivanović points out that Man, unlike other great storytellers who were his contemporaries and who radicalized the literary process, perfected integral realism and innovated and modernized existing creative processes within its framework. Through mythological, narratological, and hermeneutic analysis (where the greatest attention is devoted to the interpretation of Man's philosophy of time, that is, time and story in the direction indicated by Paul Ricker), Ivanovic showed that T. Man cultivated absolute trust in the Ancient Story, which he used to transform The Story into History and history into The Story, affirming the ethical principle that all authentic stories represent endless Life Stories.
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