„SVE SU OVO PRAZNI JAUCI IZ KNJIGA“: METATEKSTUALNI ASPEKTI „SUZE VIRTUOZA“ I „FRAGMENTA“ TINA UJEVIĆA
“ THESE ARE NOTHING BUT EMPTY MOANS FROM BOOKS”: METATEXTUAL ASPECTS OF “VIRTUOSO̕S TEARS” AND “FRAGMENT” BY TIN UJEVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the selected poetry and prose of Tin Ujevic. Besides several poems from the collection Necklace (1926), we examine in greater detail the poems Virtuoso̕s Tears from the collection Car on a Promenade (1932), and the posthumously published prose Fragment. Through an analytical approach to these works, we show that in many ways they talk about the complexity of their own reading. In this way, Ujevic opens up many fundamental problems regarding how we interpret a literary text. Ujevic's writings guide the reader to their own incapacity of healing into a meaningful whole, and their inseparability from the pervasive otherness, thus opening up questions about the possibility of an autonomous subject. In this way, his work (and in particular his essays) anticipate many of the ideas which will be developed under the auspices of deconstruction and psychoanalytic thought.

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