Original scientific paper

ANDROGYNOUS TRAVEL FROM MIRE TO VIS

Sanja Knežević orcid.org/0000-0003-0582-4298 ; University of Zadar

Abstract

In Croatian literature the term curser, destroyer of social and literary
cannons is imminent for Janko Polić Kamov. That is the artist who could
not cope with narrow-minded petty-bourgeois society which was being
made for centuries by the “male” enlightening culture. Therefore, if
avant-gardists, negating artistic cannon of modern-history art, prepared
the field for feminism, then it can be said that Janko Polić Kamov –
young Croatian intellectual – was the first one who did that. Problems of
female in Kamov’s literary work (especially in the novel Isušena Kaljuža
/ The Dried Out Mire) are in that sense foundation of this paper. Namely,
objectifying female at the first sight Polić would be characterized as antifeminist
figure, but he achieved completely the opposite thing by avantgarde
inverting of values. In his psychoanalytical traveling from the bottom
to Apollonian mire he achieved androgynous balance.

Keywords

Janko Polić Kamov; The Dried Out Mire; avant-garde; decadence; feminism

Hrčak ID:

228300

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/228300

Publication date:

11.12.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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