(AGENPARL) – VENEZIA lun 17 aprile 2023 Tihomir Brajović, Università di Belgrado

Modera: Marija Bradaš

Serbian and Yugoslav Nobel prize winner Ivo Andrić didn’t write many travelogues and literary texts about foreign countries or areas. But in what he wrote Iberia occupied a privileged place as a space for a special experience of the country, landscape, and people. For Andrić, it was a borderland where reality and imagination merge incontinently and all the time. In several writings about the Iberian region – at first place about Spain and Portugal – whether they were real travelogues or narratives with travelogue elements, he always wrote on a fascinating game of senses, mind, and reality. That also can be applied to his essays and short stories in which the main actors are famous personalities such as Francisco Goya or Lord Bayron, for example. Because of that, it becomes possible to say that Ivo Andrić’s Iberia, in fact, was a dreamlike space of boundlessness, impracticality, and phantasy where sensitive, receptive persons meet their own desires and existential projections.

Tihomir Brajović is a full South Slavic comparative studies professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Mr. Brajović has been invited to give lectures at eminent universities such as the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, Hamburg Universität, Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Columbia University in New York, University of Tübingen. As visiting professor, Mr Brajović also gave lectures at Hankuk University in Seoul (2020–2022). Until today, professor Brajović published fifteen books and hundreds of texts on the subject of literary science. He published a kind of trilogy books about Ivo Andrić’s works until now: Oblivion and Repetition: The Ambivalent Face of Modernity in The Bridge on the Drina River novel, 2009; Fiction and Power: Essay on Ivo Andric’s Subversive Imagination, 2011; Fever and Feat: Essay on Erotic Imagination in the Literary Work of Ivo Andric, 2015. Other major Books: Forms of Literary Modernism, 2005; Identical Difference: Comparative-imagological Essay, 2007; Comparative Identities: Serbian Literature Between European and South Slavic Context, 2012; Narcissus Paradox, 2013; Pedagogical Fiction, 2019, Interpretation of Lyric Poem: From Theory to Interpretative Practice, 2022.

Fonte/Source: http://www.unive.it/data/agenda/1/73859