Review article
The Early Criticism of Stevan Pešićʼs Prose: Kathmandu, The Island of Light, Sarat and Vipuli, The Tibetans (Impressions, Claims, Avenues Of Research)
Snežana Šarančić Čutura
; Faculty of Education, University of Novi Sad
Abstract
This paper considers the critical reception of the books by Stevan Pešić Katmandu (Kathmandu), 1982; Svetlo ostrvo (The Island of Light), 1984; Sarat i Vipuli (Sarat and Vipuli), 1984; Tibetanci (The Tibetans), 1988; 1993, and selected works, 1991. Attention has been given to the immediate and early critical reactions, mainly reviews published in daily and weekly newspapers, and literary and scientific journals from the beginning of the 1980s to the beginning of the 1990s. Although this does not obviate the claims that Pešić was marginalized by literary scholars, the newspaper and journal criticism, containing reflections also by eminent members of the literary and academic scene of former Yugoslavia, is a relevant source of claims regarding his poetics. The observations related to Pešić’s artistic expression, and his poetic, narrative, novelistic and travel-writing methods are selected. By collating them, an image about Pešić’s work emerges in the eyes of his contemporaries as well as a range of axiological, analytical and interpretatively stimulating avenues of future research of his oeuvre.
Keywords
Stevan Pešić; critical reception; review; Serbian literature of the second half of the 20th century; travel writing; novel
Hrčak ID:
286013
URI
Publication date:
21.11.2022.
Visits: 863 *