ANTROPOLOŠKA VIZIJA ČOVEKA U "PUSTOLINI" VLADANA RADOVANOVIĆA, "PUSTOJ ZEMLJI" T. S. ELIOTA I "2001: ODISEJI U SVEMIRU" STENLIJA KUBRIKA

The paper employs the method of comparative analysis on a sample of three works of art: the poem The Waste Land by T.S: Eliot, the multimedia novel/poem Pustolina by Vladan Radovanović, and the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. A common thematic feature that is present in each of these is the origin and development of human culture, as well as the causes of its beginnings, all of which compels the artists to compare and contrast the developing cultural world of humans with physical laws of nature. Technological development as such is taken as an explicit subject in Kubrick’s film, and is present in Eliot’s poem at an implicit level, while in Radovanović’s novel it is represented symbolically. Simultaneously, we may view Eliot’s poem in the context of the cultural circumstances surrounding the period after World War I, while preferring to view Pustolina and 2001: A Space Odyssey as a product of the cultural zeitgeist of the period of early developments in the field of informational technologies. Finally, while Radovanović provides an unequivocally optimistic vision of correspondence between the microcosmos, i.e. the human world, and the macrocosmos, or nature, Eliot’s outlook is characterized by pessimism and an exhaustion of the potentials of culture, while Kubrick retains an aspect of ambivalence