Kodni sistem Slovenska knjizevnost Avtorji Urednistvo <-> bralci |
Jezik in slovstvo Povzetki |
Jezik in slovstvo Kazalo Kazalo letnika |
Gregor Kocijan
Kidricevo presernoslovje po prvem delu monografije o Presernu (1939-1950)
Kidric's Research On Preseren After Part One Of His Monography On Preseren (1939-1950)
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In 1950, Kidric published The 1949 Preseren Album (Presernov album 1949), which may be regarded as an interesting substitute for Part Two of the monography which he could not finish. In it, he presents Preseren's entire life and work using pictorial material and documents.
There are four texts that are particularly worthy of our attention; three among them are lectures or public speeches: Preseren and the Slavic Identity (Preseren in slovanstvo, 1945), Preseren and Today's Issues (Preseren in danasnja problematika, 1947), and The Year 1848 and Preseren (Leto 1848 in Preseren, 1948). They are all characterized by exact identifications of the poet's significance, profound aesthetic evaluations of his work and positioning of Preseren among Europe's greatest poets. These texts are synthetic, very different from his papers, in which he presents thematically organized facts from the poet's life and work or from the time and eenvironment in which he wrote.
In 1950, Kidric published The 1949 Preseren Album (Presernov album 1949), which may be regarded as an interesting substitute for Part Two of the monography which he could not finish. In it, he presents Preseren's entire life and work using pictorial material and documents. The Preseren Album testifies to Kidric's meticulous and systematic method of research: pictures and documents are accompanied by precious notes (which sum up the entire body of knowledge existent at the time) and a sort of a biographic lexicon of the poet's contemporaries who did not feature in the pictorial material. While Kidric's monography remains a torso, this fact is partly made up for by The Album, which is a final contribution to the researcher's positivist and biographic method in exploring Preseren's life and work. The four texts discussed in this paper, however, depart from the positivist literary history and start investigating aesthetic and artistic dimensions of Preseren's literary body of work. They represent the beginning of a new stage in Kidric's understanding of the poet and everything created by his genius.