Lažno puritanstvo, slika sveta kroz protestantsku „istoriju“ u Crnjanskovoj Legendi

Abstract

Based on the expressionist poetic interest in the body, the early short story by Milos Crnjanski, “The Legend”, is set in the cultural, political, philosophical, and theological field of the Protestant locus, Elizabethan England, and in the manner of “non-historical memory” and historical fantastic allegories, it positions the figure of the post-war Man, which is particularly eminent in the opus of Crnjanski during the 1920s and 1930s. Contradicting the biblical status of the body / Christ / male and female, which is one of the points of the Roman Catholic and Protestant dissolution, Crnjanski uses the disagreement within the Anglican Protestant church, giving the hero of the Puritan determination the role of the text bearer. The fabulous undercurrent is about celibacy and pride created in the doctrine of one / every learning, and the birth of an anthropocentric subject in the vacant place of the exiled God. It creates a picture of the world, engulfed in misanthropy and misogyny, and then, through a blasphemous shock parallel to Christ’s suffering, points to the idea of repeated sin. The avaricious spirit of the Protestant movement provided Crnjanski with a model of avant-garde radicalism, and the biblical archetypes, such as “murky symbols” in modern times, had the function of displaying new morals on the perverted expressionist vertical.