RASTKO’S BIRTH IN POEMS “THE ONLY DREAM“, “THE SECRET OF BIRTH AND “ALL CUPS ARE EMPTY“ Cover Image

РАСТКОВО РОЂЕЊЕ У ПЕСМАМА ЈЕДИНИ САН, ТАЈНА РОЂЕЊА И СВИ СУ ЧАНЦИ ПРАЗНИ
RASTKO’S BIRTH IN POEMS “THE ONLY DREAM“, “THE SECRET OF BIRTH AND “ALL CUPS ARE EMPTY“

Author(s): Aleksandra M. Petrović
Subject(s): Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: The only dream; Rastko Petrović; Serbian poetry;

Summary/Abstract: In this work the motive of birth in poems “The only dream“, “The secret of birth“ and “All cups are empty“ is being reconsidered. If we rely on the methodological predispositions of post-structuralists and phenomenologists, in Rastko’s poems authenticity and freedom of an individual, upon their birth, are established as inaccesible and alienated constituents of a human being. That is why we cannot but ask ourselves whether the human’s birth also means their death. Beginning with the pre-natal period of human’s life, continuing with the secret of birth until the moment when life is uncovered through the experience of the subject, Rastko Petrovic understands the birth as the first (and the last) human’s connection, as anxiety and fate, where the human is only assumed as a human, where human doesn’t exist.

  • Issue Year: 61/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 459-468
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian