THE POETIC AND METAPHORICAL SPACE OF ITALY IN EMBAHADE MILOŠ CRNJANSKI

Abstract

The paper presents an observation of the narrative fabric of the Embahada formed in relation to the poetic and metaphorical image of Italy in the challenging period before the Second World War. The ambience, historical moment, people and their relationship to the spirit of the epoch are compared from Crnjanski's position through the creative personality, but also personal experience and testimony of political and diplomatic relations within European soil. The perception of the narrative threads is shaped through the duality of the principle of memory, the autobiographical memory of Crnjanski crossing it with the diary entries of the Italian count Ćano, which achieves the portrayal of the authenticity of the epoch. Using the analytical method, the peculiarities of the social, political, historical and cultural aspects of the cities of Rome, Venice, Naples and Florence are known, which shapes the integration of Italy. The diplomatic and cultural level of the Italian environment is configured through the relations of individual and collective, past and present, with the motif of otherness. The goal of the research is established by constituting the original poetic and metaphorical vision of Italy, its role and correlation expressed by cultural and political identity as one of the important markers for shaping the memoir construction of the Embahada.