In this text, the work of Serbian writer Stanislav Krakov, between the two
world wars, the famous, and later, due to ideological divisions, repressed
and forgotten figure, is ovserverd through the lens of philosophy of
existence and phenomenology. The ?philosophical? significance of Krakov?s
autobiographical war prose, which in the aesthetic, especially
formal-innovative aspect, represented the pinnacle of the genre of that time
Serbian literature, is that it can be viewed as a first-class document of
phenomenological introspection of a man in situation of mortal combat; and
the ragne his prose of his prose is, in some respects, without exaggeration,
comparable to war prose of Ernst J?nger. But besides his authentic
documentality, Krakov?s writing is characterized by brilliant insights. So,
on the one hand, Krakov can be viewed as a thinker of war and corporeality
avant lettre, and, on the other hand, the interpretative contextualization of
his prose within the aforementioned philosophical tradition helps us to
better understand his literature.
Stanislav Krakov: Phenomenology of the inner consciousness of combat