Zenithist Concept of a Barbarogenius as a Critique of the Western European Culture
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3986/pkn.v43.i3.08Keywords:
Yugoslav literature, literary avant-garde, zenitism, Micić, Ljubomir, barbarogenius, imagology, Europe, the Balkans, cultural identityAbstract
The article presents the image of a Balkan man, barbarogenius, as conceived by one of the central representatives of the Yugoslav avant-garde, Ljubomir Micić (1895–1971). The concepts of barbarian-genius and balkanization/barbarization of Europe were developed in the Zenit (1921–1926) journal, and were also represented in Micić’s poetry and prose (the novel Barbarogenious Decivilizer). Similar ideas can also be found in the work of Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) and in the Ljubljana Tank journal (1927). This points to the formation of a specific local identity, which indicates the national context of the Yugoslav avant-garde. In this way, we can track the original thought and art-historical specifics of this avant-garde current, connected with particular socio-political events in the first decades of the twentieth century. Both internationalization/cosmopolitanism and radical exposure of national characteristics can be seen as strategies for the transgression of identities, and for the establishment of the Balkans as a pluralistic cultural identity with its creative power within the Yugoslav avant-garde.
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