The Poetics of Hunger as Trauma in The Sixth Day.

• In Event: Serbian Modernism and Poetic Memory: Rastko Petrović’s Medieval Serbian Myths, the Trauma of World War One and European Aesthetic Forms

Abstract

In Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger (1890), the theme of hunger is privileged as the carrier of meanings. Using this as a starting point, I will analyze the representation of hunger in Rastko Petrović’s novel Dan šesti (1962), the stream of consciousness technique in which the theme of hunger is embedded, as well as the concrete events of WWI which form the fabric of the narrative, to sketch the outlines of Petrovic's new poetics of Serbian Modernism.

Author

• Slobodanka Millicent Vladiv-Glover, Monash U (Australia)