SASTAVLjANjE ADAMOVOG TELA NA ZEMLjI U DžOJSOVOM ULIKSU I PAVIĆEVOM HAZARSKOM REČNIKU

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the principles of the assembling of Adam’s body on Earth inJoyce’s Ulysses and Pavić’s Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words, through the following aspects: 1) general poetic perceptions of the openness of meaning ‒ in the creation of the intertextual world as a system of forming and connecting the corpus of the texts ‒ from ancient hermetic principles, to the constitution of hypertextual consciousness in the 20th century; 2) the influence of Kabbalah and Theosophy on the representation of the body of Adam Cadmon as a hidden but influential semantic aspect in Ulysses; 3) the influence of Theosophy and Kabbalah on the dominant motive of the assembling of Adam’s body in Dictionary of the Khazars, as well as the influences and modifications of Joyce Adam’s body as theosophical perspectives in Pavić’s historiographic мetafiction; 4) the relationship between the male and female principles in the аndrogynous nature of the body of Adam Cadmon; 5) the relations between theosophical teachings of the integrity of Cadmon’s body before the fall,in correspondence with hermetic principles in Corpus Hermeticum; 6) the nature and functions of dialogues and conflicts between religions, as well as the relations between dogmas and apocrypha; 7) the relationship between history, legends, myths, oneiric world and novelistic fiction; 8) demonic prevention of the mission of the assembling of Adam’s body. In all of these aspects, through the allegory of the assembling of Adam’s body, using a comparative and analytical-synthetic method, we will analyze the similarities as well as the specificities of theosophical, cabalistic and hermetic ideas about the interferences of the corpus of texts and the structures of anatomical units, in the formation of poetic and semantic aspects of Joyce’s and Pavić’s creativity, as significant perspectives of the relationship between avantgarde tendencies and postmodernism.