AN INSTANCE OF INTERTEXTUALITY, OR THE WAY MATOVIĆ UNDERSTOOD

Abstract

This paper represents the ways in which the contemporary poet Petar Matović in his collections of poetry (Koferi Džima Džarmuša (2009), Odakle dolaze dabrovi (2013), Iz srećne republike (2017), i.e., in the cycles Nove pesme from the selection of poems Ne hleb, već morfjum) 2019) and the cycle Linija fronta (2019)) achieves an intertextual connection with the work of Jovan Hristić, a Serbian poet of the second half of the twentieth century. Starting from the theoretical foundation of the term of intertextuality, Matović's poems in which the intertextual intention was explicitly expressed were initially analysed and then attention was focused on motives, poetic procedures and ideas (like travel, diary, reflexivity, human destiny, summer, sea), that indicate the implicit presence of the older poet's poetics in Matović's poetry. Comparatively examining the poetic texts of the two authors, the sources from which Matović draws as part of his poetic inspiration were found and presented, as well as the process of layering a wider tradition that occurs when choosing literary heritage.