Professional paper

Srđan Duhović: Život u sjeni

Živan Filippi ; Korčula, Hrvatska

Abstract

The author analyses the collection of poems by Srđan Duhović under the title LIFE IN THE SHADE, and selects 15 poems, which he translates into English. Taking in consideration the previous reviews on Duhović's poetry by the best Croatian writers and literary critics, the author offers his own perception of this original poet of Žrnovo and Korčula. He analyses some poems from this collection in such a way that he comments on the most often motives in Duhović's poetry and sheds light on various states of the poet's mind, which are most often connected with the geographical environment in which the poet lives and works. In this analysis, some worldly known philosophers and writers are mentioned as, for example, the French 20th century philosophers Maurice Blanchot and Emil Cioran, and the American poet Edgar Allan Poe. The author connects them with some verses of the analysed poet, but he also points out Duhović's originality. He introduces in this analysis of him the anthropological dimension of the
postmodern literary criticism explaining in some details some of the archetypes from Duhović's poetry and introduces them in the general literary currents. At the end, he mentions the language of Duhović's poems, which changes depending on his existential moods.

Keywords

Srđan Duhović; poetry; poetry translation; literary criticism

Hrčak ID:

259400

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/259400

Publication date:

11.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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