Краката на Дора Маркус, или зад силуета на „Дора Маркус“ : Случаят на една снимка и на нейния поетически облик
The Legs Of Dora Markus Or Behind The Silhouette Of “Dora Markus” : The Case Of А Photo And Of Its Poetic Appearance

Author(s): Elitza Popova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Studies of Literature
Published by: Национална академия за театрално и филмово изкуство „Кр. Сарафов“
Keywords: poetry of objects; photography; occasion; memory; Montale; Barthes; Goethe; Machiavelli; Leopardi
Summary/Abstract: “Dora Markus” is a poem by the Italian poet Eugenio Montale (1896 – 1981) from his second collection of verses “The Occasions” (“Le occasioni”, 1939). Composed in two parts, I and II, written in different years (1928 and 1939), the text is inspired by a private photo of pretty female legs, known within the context of the critique, dedicated to Montale, as ‘the legs of Dora Markus’. This research describes the way in which the photo acquires a poetic appearance of high density and analyses its incarnation – presence-absence – in the abovementioned poem, emblematic for Montale’s poetics

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