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Prenesi Datoteko Prenesi ISSN 0351-1189 PRIMERJALNA KNJIŽEVNOST ISSN (tiskana izdaja/printed edition): 0351-1189 TEMATSKI SKLOP / THEMATIC SECTION Comparative literature, Ljubljana ISSN (spletna izdaja/online edition): 2591-1805 O literaturi med revolucijo in tranzicijo / PKn (Ljubljana) 43.3 (2020) PKn (Ljubljana) PKn (Ljubljana) 43.3 (2020) (2020) 34.3 PKn (Ljubljana) On Literature Between Revolution and Transition Izdaja Slovensko društvo za primerjalno književnost Published by the Slovene Comparative Literature Association https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/primerjalna_knjizevnost/index Uredil / Edited by: Marko Juvan Glavni in odgovorni urednik Editor: Marijan Dović Tehnični urednik Technical Editor: Blaž Zabel Marko Juvan: Predgovor / Introduction Uredniški odbor Editorial Board: Marko Juvan, Alenka Koron, Dejan Kos, Vanesa Matajc, Darja Pavlič, Vid Snoj, Alen Širca, Jola Škulj Marko Juvan: Usoda maja '68 in (post)socializem Uredniški svet Advisory Board: Matteo Colombi: Reflections on the Challenges of Dissident Culture Ziva Ben-Porat (Tel Aviv), Vladimir Biti (Dunaj/Wien), Lucia Boldrini, Zoran Milutinović, from 1968 to 1989 and Beyond Katia Pizzi, Galin Tihanov (London), Darko Dolinar, Janko Kos, Aleksander Skaza, Neva Šlibar, Tomo Virk (Ljubljana), César Domínguez (Santiago de Compostela), Péter Hajdu Branislav Jakovljević: 1968, 1989, and the Mainstreaming of the New Right (Budimpešta/Budapest), Jón Karl Helgason (Reykjavík), Bart Keunen (Gent), Sowon Park (Santa Barbara), Ivan Verč (Trst/Trieste), Peter V. Zima (Celovec/Klagenfurt) Miško Šuvaković: Slovenian Alternative Artistic Practices – OHO and NSK © avtorji © Authors PKn izhaja trikrat na leto. PKn is published three times a year. RAZPRAVE / ARTICLES Prispevke in naročila pošiljajte na naslov Send manuscripts and orders to: Revija Primerjalna književnost, Novi trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Alenka Divjak: Kralj mučenik in sproščena opatinja Letna naročnina: 20,00 €, za študente in dijake 10,00 €. TR 02010-0016827526, z oznako »za revijo«. Lilijana Burcar: Prve literarne pravljice francoskega salonskega vala Cena posamezne številke: 10,00 €. Annual subscription (outside Slovenia): € 40,00. Lara Gea Vurnik Navinšek: Yeatsove maske in Pessoovi heteronimi v luči Naklada Copies: 350. zahodnega ezoterizma PKn je vključena v PKn is indexed/ abstracted in: Kristina Pranjić: Zenitistični koncept barbarogenija kot kritika Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/ A&H, Bibliographie d’histoire littéraire française, ERIH, IBZ and IBR, zahodnoevropske kulture MLA Directory of Periodicals, MLA International Bibliography, Scopus. Anja Skapin: Misliti medkulturno literarno zgodovino na Slovenskem Oblikovanje Design: Narvika Bovcon Stavek in prelom Typesetting: Alenka Maček Maryam Najafibabanazar: Linguistic Silence and Alienation of Female Tisk Printed by: VB&S d. o. o., Flandrova 19, Ljubljana Izid številke je podprla This issue is supported by: Characters in Ulysses and The Blind Owl Agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost RS. Oddano v tisk 3. novembra 2020. Sent to print on 3 November 2020. Sabina Osmanović: The Search for Meaning and the Illusion of Escaping TEMATSKI SKLOP / THEMATIC SECTION O literaturi med revolucijo in tranzicijo: maj '68, socializem in postsocializem On Literature Between Revolution and Transition: May ’68, Socialism, and Post-Socialism Uredil / Edited by: Marko Juvan 1 Marko Juvan: Predgovor 3 Marko Juvan: Introduction 5 Marko Juvan: Usoda maja '68 in (post)socializem: literatura med revolucijo in tranzicijo 29 Matteo Colombi: Civil Society and Art/Theory Producers as Parallel Polis? Reflections on the Challenges of Dissident Culture from 1968 to 1989 and Beyond 49 Branislav Jakovljević: The Ownership of Evil: 1968, 1989, and the Mainstreaming of the New Right 65 Miško Šuvaković: Between New Sensibility and Transgression: Slovenian Alternative Artistic Practices – OHO and NSK RAZPRAVE / PAPERS 79 Alenka Divjak: Kralj mučenik in sproščena opatinja: dva netipična svetnika iz istega družinskega gnezda 99 Lilijana Burcar: Prve literarne pravljice francoskega salonskega vala: hibridna žanrska zvrst 119 Lara Gea Vurnik Navinšek: Yeatsove maske in Pessoovi heteronimi v luči zahodnega ezoterizma 139 Kristina Pranjić: Zenitistični koncept barbarogenija kot kritika zahodnoevropske kulture 159 Anja Skapin: Misliti medkulturno literarno zgodovino na Slovenskem 179 Maryam Najafibabanazar: Linguistic Silence and Alienation of Female Characters in Ulysses and The Blind Owl 199 Sabina Osmanović: The Search for Meaning and the Illusion of Escaping: Martin Walser’s Runaway Horse – a Novella about the Midlife Crisis Primerjalna književnost, letnik 43, št. 3, Ljubljana, november 2020 Tematski sklop / Thematic section O literaturi med revolucijo in tranzicijo: maj '68, socializem in postsocializem On Literature Between Revolution and Transition: May ’68, Socialism, and Post- Socialism Razprave Uredil / Edited by Marko Juvan Predgovor Marko Juvan Tematski sklop je nastal v okviru temeljnega raziskovalnega projekta »Maj 68 v literaturi in teoriji: zadnja sezona modernizma v Franciji, Sloveniji in svetu« (J6-9384, financer ARRS). Štirje prispevki se posve- čajo spremembam modernistično usmerjene literature in teorije v soci- alističnih deželah (Češkoslovaški in Jugoslaviji) od mednarodnega štu- dentskega gibanja v obdobju t. i. liberalizma šestdesetih let 20. stoletja do padca železne zavese 1989 in obdobju postsocialistične tranzicije, ki je sledilo. Članek urednika tematskega sklopa Marka Juvana (ZRC SAZU) na ozadju divergentnih razlag zgodovinskega procesa 1968–1989 obravnava sovisnost med konceptoma revolucije in modernizma. Z vidika teorije svetovnih-sistemov primerja pojave radikalizacije, ki jo je modernizem v literarnih in teoretskih neoavantgardah zahodnega jedra (Pariza) in socialistični »vmesni perifernosti« (Ljubljana) doživel v »dolgem letu '68« pod vplivom študentskega gibanja kot poskusa svetovne revolucije. Matteo Colombi (Univerza v Leipzigu) sledi razvoju ideje »vzpored- nega polisa«, ki je iz izkušenj »praške pomladi« 1968 dozorela v krogu disidentov, podpisnikov Listine 77. Ugotavlja, kako se je v obdobju normalizacije in po »žametni revoluciji« 1989 spreminjala civilna družba – prvotna dialoškost v notranji raznolikosti civilne družbe se je umaknila izključevalnosti, na površje pa je prišlo tudi latentno naspro- tje med njenim konservativnim in progresivnim polom. Branislav Jakovljević (Univerza Stanford) utemeljuje na prvi pogled presenetljivo tezo, da se v dolgem letu '68 ni rodila samo nova levica, temveč tudi nova desnica. Vznik desničarskega diskurza, kostumiranega v avantgardo, odkrije tudi v socialistični Jugoslaviji, kjer Kalajićeva nova desnica ne doživi oblastne represije (drugače od novolevičarskega štu- dentskega gibanja), pač pa teoretsko kritiko Radomira Konstantinovića. Nova desnica, ki je po svetu (tudi v tranzicijskem postjugoslovanskem prostoru) v tretjem tisočletju postala mainstream, je torej korenine pognala že pred desetletji. Miško Šuvakovič (Univerza Singidunum) v kontekstu globalnih umetniških gibanj po 1960 razišče delovanje slovenske neoavantgardne skupine OHO, ki s svojim konceptualizmom prelomi z institucijo umetnosti in idejo umetniškega dela ter prebije meje estetskega polja. Poudari raznolikost in večmedijskost OHO-ja, ki je postal svetovno 1 Primerjalna književnost (Ljubljana) 43.3 (2020) PKn, letnik 43, št 3, Ljubljana, november 2020 prepoznaven. Mednarodno odmevnost si je ustvarila tudi retrogardi- stična skupina NSK, ki se predstavlja kot naslednica OHO-ja v pogojih tranzicijskega nacionalizma in globalnega kapitalizma. 2 Introduction Marko Juvan The present thematic section is a result of the research project “May 68 in Literature and Theory: The Last Season of Modernism in France, Slovenia, and the World” (J6-9384, funded by ARRS). The four con- tributions focus on the changes in modernist literature and theory in the socialist countries (Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia) from the in- ternational student movement during the so-called liberalism of the 1960s until the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the subsequent period of post-socialist transition. Against the background of diverging explanations of the historical process 1968–1989, the article by the editor of the thematic section Marko Juvan (ZRC SAZU) deals with the interdependence between the concepts of revolution and modernism. From the perspective of world-systems theory, he compares the phenomena of radicaliza- tion that modernism experienced under the influence of the 1968 student movement in the literary and theoretical neo-avant-garde of the Western core (Paris) and the socialist “in-between peripherality” (Ljubljana). Matteo Colombi (University of Leipzig) examines the development of the idea of a “parallel polis,” which originated from the experiences of the “Prague Spring” of 1968 and was formulated in the circle of dis- sidents, signatories of Charter 77. The author describes how civil soci- ety has changed during the normalization period, and after 1989 – the original dialogue between internally different civil society has mutated into mutual exclusivity, while the latent opposition between conserva- tive and progressive poles of civil society has come to the surface. Branislav Jakovljević (Stanford University) argues, apparently sur- prisingly, that in the long year ’68 not only the New Left was born, but also the New Right. He discovers the origin of the right-wing discourse, costumed in the avant-garde, also in socialist Yugoslavia, where the New Right of Kalajić
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