The Black Sea as a Palimpsest in the Prose Travel Writings of South Slavic Poets Desanka Maksimović and Vesna Parun Cover Image

Црно море као палимпсест у путописноj прози jугословенских песникиња Десанке Максимовић и Весне Парун
The Black Sea as a Palimpsest in the Prose Travel Writings of South Slavic Poets Desanka Maksimović and Vesna Parun

Author(s): Ljubica Zekić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Serbian Literature, Other Language Literature, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: travelogue prose; Other Mаn; Other Sea; Black Sea; Bulgaria; icon; bird; snake

Summary/Abstract: Recognition of the symbolic code of Bulgaria in the travelogue prose by Yugoslav poets, Desanka Maksimovic and Vesna Parun, is accomplished with two figures: the Other Sea and Other Man. The Other Man is creative medium through which the Other Sea is observed, while the Other Sea unveils its unknown horizons with drawing historical, spiritual and symbolic representations into the iconographic framework of the Black Sea. The aim of the paper is to present the figure to the hydronim as a palimpsest in the Slavic relations; the path of recognizing Yugoslavia and Bulgaria is represented through historical to symbolic points – the Adriatic Sea as the First Sea exists trough the Other Sea, the Black Sea. By comparative methodology, symbolic layers of the travelogue prose are revealed through the ornaments of Black Sea.

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 1 (7)
  • Page Range: 111-124
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian