From the Avant-garde to the Yugoslav Literary Right

Correspondences Between Poetic Concepts and Fascism in the Magazine Ideje, 1934–1935

Authors

  • Mirnes Sokolovic University of Graz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0225/art_msok01

Keywords:

Yugoslav literature, avantgarde, reactionary modernism

Abstract

In the magazine Ideje (Ideas), edited and published in Belgrade in 1934 and 1935 by the prominent author Miloš Crnjanski, Yugoslav avant-gardists published numerous texts expressing right-wing views on aesthetics and politics. Literary historians such as Milo Lompar argue that the editors and contributors of Ideje were unjustly accused of being ­ fascist propagandists. As this article demonstrates, a significant feature of these texts in Ideje is the incorporation of race theory and biological criteria – viewed as cultural constants – as factors influencing political life. The analysed authors specifically engage in a critique of liberal policies and advocate for the rebirth of Europe in the spirit of a new ­ authoritarianism, antisemitism, and corporatism. These positions align with the broader trend of reactionary modernism that was prevalent in European literature at the time.

Author Biography

  • Mirnes Sokolovic, University of Graz

    Mirnes Sokolović is a PhD candidate at the University of Graz. He holds an MA degree in South Slavic literatures from the University of Sarajevo. He is one of the founders and editors of the Sarajevo literary magazine SIC! and the editor of the volume Nacija I poststrukturalizam (2013). He has also contributed to the cultural sections of the Belgrade-based E-novine and Sarajevo’s Oslobođenje. He publishes prose, essays, literary criticism, and feuilletons in various magazines. His monographs include the novel Rastrojstvo (Sarajevo, 2013), and collections of essays in Izokrenuti durbin (Sarajevo, 2020) and Kraj avanture (Zagreb, 2021). He was a Junior Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies from 2023 to 2024.

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Published

2025-05-08

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): S:I.M.O.N. – SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION.

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How to Cite

“From the Avant-Garde to the Yugoslav Literary Right: Correspondences Between Poetic Concepts and Fascism in the Magazine Ideje, 1934–1935”. 2025. S: I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 12 (2): 41-57. https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0225/art_msok01.