TO MEET AND CONTINUE ON THE SAME LINE The Új Symposion writer’s attitude to Antun Šoljan’s literary concept
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The Croatian author Antun Šoljan (1932–1993) came to the attention of the emerging generations of writers and artists in Vojvodina in the first half of the 1950s. His sensibility as a poet, storyteller, and literary translator, as well as his activity as a newspaper editor and his commitment as a critic, influenced the Symposion generation mostly by encouraging them to follow in his steps, but also by stimulating discussion. My article discusses the multi-directional reception of this attitude, which regards high-quality aesthetic performance and commitment as a function, not of social status, but of free artistic creation, detailing those mutual ideological reference points, connections, or collision surfaces, that are characterized by intellectual self-representation that avoids the false heroism of national myths and continuity of tradition freed from the manic import and/or epigonism of recent trends in world literature.
Source: Hungarológiai Közlemények
Authors: Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Bölcsészettudományi Kar, Magyar Irodalmi Tanszék, Szeged, Magyarország, Zoltán VIRÁG
Institution: University of Szeged
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404418774