Mimezis – slika ili doživljaj svijeta
Mimesis – a Picture or Experience of the World

Summary/Abstract: Mimesis is a very complex term and therefore holds interest to those exploring the fields of art and literature. Its complexity is enlarging through time because with every new work new stiles are being created and new relations towards reality. Theoreticians who wrote about literature have merely mentioned this subject, they have enhanced and evoked new opinions and dilemmas. We cannot take any definition of mimesis as true because this would degrade many great works of art or proclaim Aristotel’s or Platon’s definition as incorrect. Why then shouldn’t we say mimesis is everything? Neither interpretation can be marked as untrue, but also none can be proclaimed as totally accurate. Mimesis is the image of reality, it is the artist’s own experience of that reality and the reflection of it. Sometimes true, sometimes not. Often someone else’s thought has been taken, often it is a reflection in the mirror or a framed picture. Art, therefore, literature can be it all. Some believe that the real world is far more valuable than art. But what is art then a part of our world? The works of Platon and Aristotel created thousands of years ago are the foundations on which creative thoughts are laid as bricks until this day. And since the roof of this building is not near the bricks can still be laid one upon another. So, what is this paper which slowly reaches its end, but another brick in the building called mimesis, whose foundations have been made 2000 years ago and whose creation is still in process. To glue this brick firmly into the walls of this building one thought of Plehanov can be used: „Man gives his thoughts to another man by words, but by art he gives his emotions.” Since literature is the only art that uses words as means of creating emotions, then its mimesis is a combination of words and emotions.

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