Neurasthenia and Modernity. On the Forgotten Novel Gluvne čini (Dead Spells) of Aleksandar Ilić Cover Image

Neurastenia i nowoczesność. O zapomnianej powieści Gluvne čini (Głuche zaklęcia) Aleksandra Ilicia
Neurasthenia and Modernity. On the Forgotten Novel Gluvne čini (Dead Spells) of Aleksandar Ilić

Author(s): Sylwia Nowak-Bajcar
Subject(s): Novel, Serbian Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: decadentism; urban prose; Paris; Belgrade; modernization processes; neurasthenia;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the previously unread novel Gluvne čini (Dead Spells) from 1930, by Aleksandar Ilić (1890–1947), the writer who, after the Second World War until 1982, was excluded from the space of Serbian culture for political reasons. Neurastenia – the disease of the main character of the novel becomes a kind of response to the modernization processes experienced by him.

  • Issue Year: 14/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 233-246
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish