ПЕСНИЧКИ PAT И ЛИРСКИ МИР
STEVAN RAIČKOVIĆ’S DISCREET POLEMIC CONTRIBUTION IN THE PERIOD OF POSTWAR LITERARY TURMOIL

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses implicit programme and polemic moments in Stevan Raickovic’s early poetry, as well as his then statements about poetic issues, in the circumstances of the poetic turning-point during the first decade after World War II. The paper specially focusses some of the preserved poems written before 1950, in the light of the poetic difference and subtle provocation in relation to the dictate of the poetics of the so-called socialist realism, and then also the introductory and epilogue poem of the first circle in the collection Pesma tišine (Poem of Silence, 1952), as well as the prologue poem from the first comprehensive book of sellected poems (Pesme/Poems, 1963), which are also crypto-polemic in relation to the activist imperative and some other features of the new modernist wave, because he himself was a specific factor of the poetic turning-point. As a support for such analytic angle, the paper also uses Raickovic’s poetic statements from two interviews from the mid-1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, intoned with a strong polemic irony, as well as the text “Rec o poeziji” (A Word on Poetry) in which he even more deeply and critically sharply articulated his poetic position in relation to the circumstances in which he was creating.

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