Original scientific paper

Two Venuses in literary memory

Anica Bilić orcid.org/0000-0002-6162-7582 ; The Center for Scientific Work in Vinkovci

Abstract

common, basic motif, the two texts written in the period of the Croatian Modernism, the prose work Under the Venus of the Capitol written in 1898 by Ksaver Šandor Gjalski, and the one-act comedy Venus Victrix written by Milan Begović in 1905, are seen as a mnemotechnical art that shapes the memory space, and evokes memories of the Antique culture in the spirit of fin de siècle and Modernism.
Beside the fact that these two texts record the memory of cultures of the ancient times, they also turn their heritage into a model for stylization of the past. However, their stylized representation of historical worlds and the poetics of artificial worlds do not testify to the past, but rather to the relation between art and life as the central aesthetic problem of Modernism, the one from which problems of aestheticism and vitalism, sensualism, decadence, the dialectics of failure and new creation derive.

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Hrčak ID:

71924

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/71924

Publication date:

3.5.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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