КОСТИЋЕВA ОСУДA 3MAJOBE
KOSTIĆ’S CONDEMNATION OF ZMAJ JOVA

Summary/Abstract: The significance of Zmaj’s poetic work was long ago acknowledged by the history of Serbian literature. Most confusion in reaching a valid assessment was caused by the politically coloured poems, and a negative attitude Laza Kostic expressed towards such poems only added to those assessments. Starting from these facts we analysed certain Kostic’s “arguments” on the basis of which some of his critical attitudes were made. He points out that where facts become part of literature, they become literary facts and must be valued accordingly. This principle, however, was obviously not closely observed in The Book on Zmaj. Therefore such Kostic’s inconsistency not only allows for a different approach to the interpretation of The Book on Zmaj, but also throws a new light on Zmaj's political poetry itself.

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