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by the conscious or unconscious recognition of the fundamentally threatened and fragile position of a tiny nation and its language.
Translated by Bruce Oliver-Boeckel
NOTES
1. A. Belyj, "Simvolizm," in Arabeski of Slavische Propylaen vol. 63 (Munich,
1969), p. 241 f. Cf H. Friedrich, Die Struktur der modemen Lyrik: Von Baudelaire
bis zur Gegenwart (Hamburg, 1956), Rolf-Dieter Kluge, "Symbolismus und Avantgarde
in der russischen Literatur," in Obdobja 4, 1 (Ljujbljana, 1983), pp. 229-238. Repeated
references to a work will be noted according to author, or according to abbreviated
titles if several works by the same author are cited.
2. Rene Wellek speaks of "empty transcendence," H. Friedrich of "leerer Idealitat,"
C. M. Bowra of the fall of Christian metaphysics. Cf. Wellek, "The Term and Concept
of Symbolism in Literary History," in Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism
(New Haven-London, 1971), p. 118; Friedrich, p. 35 f.; S. M. Bowra, The Heritage of
Symbolism (London, 1973).
3. Cf W. Kayser, Der europaische Symbolismus: Die Vortragsreise (Bern, 1958),
pp. 287-304; M. Raymond, De Baudelaire au surrealisme (Paris, 1972), p. 49 f.; Harald
Weinrich, "Semantik der kiihnen Metapher," Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fiir Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, XXXVII, 1963, pp. 325-344; Herman Pongs,
Das Bild der Dichtung, vol. I (Marburg, 1965), p. 23; H. Fridrich, p. 152.
4. Allan J. P. Taylor, The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918, 1948.
5. A. W. Schlegel, Vorlesungen uber schOne Kunst in Kritische Schriften und
Briefe, IV (Stuttgart 1965).
6. J. P. Sartre, Qu 'est-ce que la literature: Situations II (Paris, 1948).
7. Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra in Nietzsche, Samtliche Werke
in 12 Banden, vol. VI (Stuttgart, 1964).
8. Cf. Ivan Cankars' letter to Zofka Kvedrova of May 8th, 1900, Zbrano delo
XXVIII (Ljubljana, 1973)p. 135.
9. Henri Bergson, L Evolution creatrice in Oeuvres (Paris, 1970).
10. "Tu ste ljudje ocitni" (1918), Zbrano delo III (Ljubljana, 1959).
11. O. Mandel'stam, "Slovo i kul'tura" (1921) in Mandel'stam, Sobr. socinenij
(New Haven, 1971), p. 226.
12. Cf. the similar process in the thought of Ivan Cankars, described in the letter
of May 8th, 1900 written from Vienna to Zofka Kvedrova, Zbrano delo XXXVIII.
13. For example, poems from Integrali (Ljubljana, 1967): "Evakuacija duha,"
p. 118, "Kons x," p. 153; "Mrtvi 6lovek," p. 294; "Moj cmi tintnik," p. 133;et al.
14. "Ostri ritmi," Inegrali, p. 257.
15. "Moja pesem," Zbrano delo'I (Ljubljana, 1964), p. 229.
16. A. Facker, "Kosovelova konstruktivisticka poezija i jugoslavenski kontekst,"
Obdobja 5 (Ljubljana 1984), pp. 173-182.
17. Roman Jakobson and M. Halle, Fundamentals of Language (The Hague, 1956),
pp. 53-82.
18. Kosovel's literary manifesto Mehanikom, Integrali, p. 102. his letter to F. Obid
of July 27th, 1925,Zbrano delo III (Ljubljana, 1977), p. 399.
19. Kosovel's letter to M. Samsa of July 7th, 1925, Zbrano delo III, p. 555 f.
20. Friedrich, p. 15.
21. Kosovel's letter to M. Samsa of January 11th, 1925, Zbrano delo III, p. 555.