| The Quest for Roots: The Poetry of Vasko Popa Contributor(s): Fraenkel, Eran (Editor), Lekic, Anita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820417777 ISBN-13: 9780820417776 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $56.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Russian - Foreign Language Study | Serbian & Croatian |
| Dewey: 891.821 |
| LCCN: 92-7285 |
| Series: Balkan Studies; 2 |
| Physical Information: 178 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This work analyzes and elucidates the principal motifs and images in Popa's work in relation to Yugoslav traditions of myth, time, and history. Popa's poetry reflects a fascinating synthesis of existential concerns and a primitivist belief in the transcendent dimensions of human existence. The pagan vision of man and time in Papa's principal collections signifies an attempt to compensate for the loss of faith which lies at the root of twentieth-century existentialism. The modernist sense of rootless and alienation is overcome by a return to the mythic roots of poetry, language and human existence. |