The subject of the paper is Šialený mesiac /The Mad Moon/ by J. Ondruš as a key poetic text of Slovak lyric written in the 1960s – placing the accent on the aspects of his poetics and the ways of identifying them. The paper evolves in several steps. 1. It takes notice of the updates of surreal inspirations namely in the 1960s. 2. It confronts the versions of the poem published in a magazine and in his book debut. It takes notice of certain corrections of eccentricity of the subject-character. 3. It presents an attempt at mythological and philosophical, and intertextual placing of the lunar and lunatic motifs with regard to The Mad Moon. 4. It shows (in reference to P. Ricoeur) the progression of „stain“, „mistake“ and „guilt“ as the indices of fatal human deficiency. 5. The actual critical reading of the poem follows the oscillation between the factual physical everyday dimension of the course of events, and the emphatic, „lunatically“ excessive one,: the „mad moon“ as a cipher of human and poetic existence, as a cipher of poetry itself, its magic power and deficiency.
The focus of the current study is the construction of poetic meaning, which the eminent Slovak author Ján Ondruš and the Bulgarian one Alexander Vutimski employ in some of their poetry texts. First, are being analysed the poetic strategies of ‘overcoming the language deficiency’ in Ján Ondruš’s poetry. The argumentation is based on two main problems and initial points of similarity that can be found in the works of both poets: the multiple lyrical subjects and ‘the enclosed circle.’ Second, we look at four poetry works by Alexander Vutimski in terms of ‘the naming problem,’ ‘the alternative language’ and ‘the alternative reality.’ Furthermore, we project those problems on two main lyric presences in the texts – the blue boy and the rotted angel, which represent two methods of lyrical subject identification/self-identification. We briefly map the traces of homosexuality as a social problem in the 1940s in Bulgarian context – during A. Vutimski’s life and writing years.
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