Predo mnou v piesku znamenie Ryby
The Sign of Fish in the sand before me

on the influence of the poetics of Stéphane Mallarmé on the most esteemed collection of poems by Karol Strmeň

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to show the influence of the French modernist poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé on Slovak exile poetry in the second half of the twentieth century represented by the most esteemed collection of poems of Karol Strmeň The Sign of Fish written in 1969. We developed the idea of Július Pašteka (2002) about possible impact of Mallarmé in poetry by Karol Strmeň using the work of Hugo Friedrich The Structure of Modern Poetry (1956) as our theoretical source. We compared axioms of this work with concrete poetry texts to prove that Mallarmé’s poetics is present in the examined texts through the category of negativism and dehumanisation. The study moves from the searching for new forms of poetry language to different varieties of forming these categories in poetry texts and their functions. It is Christian ethos what appears as essential and differentiating in Strmeň’s poetry and it is also the most important difference between both examines poetics, making them although relative but still characteristic and original.

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