Kodni sistem Slovenska književnost Avtorji Uredništvo <-> bralci |
Jezik in slovstvo Povzetki |
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Gregor Kocijan
Kidričevo prešernoslovje po prvem delu monografije o Prešernu (1939-1950)
Kidrič's Research On Prešeren After Part One Of His Monography On Prešeren (1939-1950)
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In 1950, Kidrič published The 1949 Prešeren Album (Prešernov 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 Prešeren'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: Prešeren and the Slavic Identity (Prešeren in slovanstvo, 1945), Prešeren and Today's Issues (Prešeren in današnja problematika, 1947), and The Year 1848 and Prešeren (Leto 1848 in Prešeren, 1948). They are all characterized by exact identifications of the poet's significance, profound aesthetic evaluations of his work and positioning of Prešeren 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, Kidrič published The 1949 Prešeren Album (Prešernov 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 Prešeren's entire life and work using pictorial material and documents. The Prešeren Album testifies to Kidrič'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 Kidrič'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 Prešeren'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 Prešeren's literary body of work. They represent the beginning of a new stage in Kidrič's understanding of the poet and everything created by his genius.