Original scientific paper

Blown Away by Irony: Pushkin and Kierkegaard

Ana Tomljenović ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Abstract

Pointing out the significance of Pushkin's cycle The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin (1831) in the context of Croatian Romanticism, the paper focuses on the story "Blizzard", which critics have recognized as an intertext of the novellas "One Night" (1846) by Dimitrije Demeter and "Glory and Love" (1853) by Mirko Bogović. In the analysis of Pushkin's "The Blizzard", the author starts from a psychoanalytic reading of Kierkegaard's study Either/Or, which brings to light the analogy between the unattainable object of desire and the object of literature. Contending that irony is the formative principle of Kierkegaard's and Pushkin's texts, the paper highlights their abysmal structure, showing that absence in the place of first and true love is identical to absence in the place of the first and true story.

Keywords

Pushkin; Kierkegaard; romantic irony; groundlessness [mise-en-abîme]

Hrčak ID:

309957

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/309957

Publication date:

20.11.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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