ISIDORA SEKULIĆ ON LAZA KOSTIĆ

Abstract

The paper examines the critical activity of Isidora Sekulić, intended to show to what extent this critic influenced the revaluation of Laza Kostić's poetic work. The focus is on the text entitled Laza Kostić (1941), which Isidora Sekulić publishes on the occasion of the centenary of the poet's birth, and special attention is paid to the segments in which the poem Santa Maria della Salute is discussed, Kostić's fragmentary nature and the unenviable position that he acquired in literary circles at the beginning of the 20th century. The aim of this paper is to cast light on the unbreakable bond between the defiant poet and the justice-loving critic. Owing to Isidora Sekulić we perceive Laza Kostić as an "exceptional poetic being" and call him the creator of "the most beautiful and most expensive love poem in Serbian literature".