Original scientific paper

Lenin's Death and Srečko Kosovel's Poetry

Miklavž Komelj ; Ljubljana

Abstract

The text proposes to analyze two less well known sonnets by Srečko Kosovel written on the ocassion of Lenin's death in 1924. Unlike other reactions to Lenin's death on the artistic left which pointed out that the death was not a true death, Kosovel established communication with the dead Lenin by assuming himself as already dead. The unusual combination of poetic images is based on the simultaneous occurrences of Lenin's death and the agreement between Yugoslavia and fascist Italy. On the other hand, the two sonnets might be understood as an anticipation of the relationship between a view of death and the revolution, the one that predetermined Kosovel's „great reversal“ during the summer of 1925.

Keywords

Srečko Kosovel; Lenin; death; poetry; revolution

Hrčak ID:

190762

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/190762

Publication date:

15.12.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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