Miljkovic, N. (2022). Three conversations about Poplavsky: Boris Poplavsky’s poetics through the prism of intertextuality. Belgrade, Sevojno: Faculty of Philology, Grafičar. (In Russ.)

Abstract

 The review is devoted to a monograph about the Russian émigré poet Boris Poplavsky written by the Serbian scholar Nikola Miljkovic. Marking the 120th anniversary of Poplavsky’s birth, the book is the author’s third study of the poet. Miljkovic justly recognizes Poplavsky’s legacy as a unique literary phenomenon with its own ontological, existential, historical, and aesthetical roots. The book’s structure corresponds to the scholar’s threefold objective: to explore various modifications of Poplavsky’s lyrical self; to examine the influence of various aesthetical paradigms (Romanticism, the Decadent movement, Symbolism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Dadaism); and to determine how prominently Poplavsky’s ties with Russia feature in his poetry, in terms of his connections with Russia’s past, as well as its culture and literature. The scholar’s intertextual approach is viewed as a largely fitting and productive, if not indisputable, new reading of Poplavsky’s oeuvre.