The Woyage of Viktor Vida (The Odyssey of the Woyage and the Return)

Viktor Vida published an essay colored with subjective experiences from his life and he gave it the title »Quasimodo or Odyssey of lyrics«, in Croatian Review in Buenos Aires, 1960. The essay was about the Italian Nobel Prize winner Salvatore Quasimodo. Vida followed the poet’s (re)construction of »the lyrics of memories about childhood, paradise lost, crying over waters, spiritual region of the resurrected old Greek, transformation of the sea, trees...«, which was also his own, but in the state of obstructed identity (in collections of lyrics: The Universe of a person, 1951, The slave of Time, 1956; which were previously published in different magazines). The voyage of Viktor Vida is like sailing through a recognizable chart which is at the same time the inner chart of a spiritual landscape, carried by the odyssey of melancholy which was writing on the chart of the Mediterranean. Carrying the Mediterranean and homeland chart, his lyrics will revive the far away lyric contents of the mind which will in poet Viktor Vida, in far away Argentina, establish simultaneous pictures that personalize inner mental pictures of subjective »frozen« times. The odyssey of the voyage and the return remains in Viktor Vida in the area of ironic overmarking in which poetic pictures and memories repeat, and where there is no physical return to the starting point which remains the lyric looking back. The mythic matrix of the antique sea voyage – which was writing on the chart of the Mediterranean – is an anchored estheticism into spiritual topos and frozen moment of time in the area of homeland / Mediterranean landscape