Pokonać epidemię, czyli o dekadentyzmie w literaturze serbskiej (na przykładzie powieści Strast Davida S. Pijadego)
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.
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