Kroatologija, Vol. 14 No. 2, 2023.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.59323/k.14.2.1
Echoes of the Italian Cultural and Spiritual Space in Viktor Vida’s Literary Work
Dubravka Dubravec Labaš
orcid.org/0000-0001-7031-4687
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
At the end of the 1960s, Viktor Vida’s work saw a "return" into the Croatian literary corpus and he was the only emigrant poet whose poems were printed in his homeland. However, considering that in the given circumstances it was not possible to write about certain elements of his literary work, and since some texts published in South America were inaccessible and unknown for a long time, parts of Vida's oeuvre were unfairly neglected or marginalized. As he had studied Italian language and literature, he was proficient in the Italian language, literature and the artistic tradition of the Apennine peninsula. Also, during his stays in Italy (first on a scholarship in 1938-39, and then again from 1942, when he first went to Venice, and later to Rome, where he stayed until he left for Argentina in 1948), he had the opportunity to become familiar with Italian society and political circumstances, as well as to witness literary and artistic changes that would leave a significant mark on European and world culture in the post-war years. Croatian literary criticism placed Vida, along with Drago Ivanišević, among the hermetic poets, within the framework of poetics that is primarily associated with the Italian poets Montale, Quasimodo and Ungaretti. Vida did not publish in Italy and he wrote only one poem in Italian. However, Italy and its literary, cultural, artistic and spiritual heritage, as well as an awareness of Croatia's belonging to the same Mediterranean civilization circle, of the historical connection between the two countries and the continuous flow of ideas and people from both sides of the Adriatic, left their mark on his work on different levels. This is particularly visible in the prose poems and essays that will be discussed in this paper, which primarily deals with echoes of what Roland Barthes calls 'Italianity', and includes everything from spaghetti to painting.
Ključne riječi
Viktor Vida; prose; Italianity; Croatianness
Hrčak ID:
312152
URI
Datum izdavanja:
23.12.2023.
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