Review article

On the works of Risto Ratković

Sofija Kalezić ; Fakultet za crnogorski jezik i književnost, Cetinje

Abstract

Risto Ratković belongs to the modernist and left-wing orientation of South Slavic expressionism, which in the further flows of interwar literature tended toward surrealism and social literature. He was the main figure of that group and contributed the most to its theoretical self-determination. The essay analytically illuminates the creative work of Ratković as one of the most important Montenegrin modernists, with special reference to his unusual biography and contradictory personality. This writer presented his understanding of poetry in the article “On Surrealism” from My Life, which is reminiscent of Miloš Crnjanski's Explanation of Sumatra. Ratković understood surrealism as bringing a dream into reality, and he expressed his poetic commitment with a multifaceted motto: to violate reality by a dream. Accordingly, the mind organizes the poetic material while the poem is created in a dream, that is, in a moment of inspiration and special inspiration.

Keywords

surrealism; modernity; bohemianism; art of words; genre versatility

Hrčak ID:

289443

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/289443

Publication date:

29.12.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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