The paper compares Kosovel's manuscript »Krvaveci vrelec« with the versions edited by Anton Ocvirk (1974) and Neza Zajc (2013), highlighting discrepancies, blunders and lapsus lecturae. Their ...correction allowed to identify the source of the collage elements of the first stanza in a single number of the Slovenian liberal daily Jutro, released on Thursday, February 11, 1926, a few months before the poet's death. The second stanza is a sarcastic rhetorical question, referred to the government crisis, which loomed because of claims for ethnic autonomy put forward by the head of the Croatian Peasant Party, Stjepan Radic, seconded by Anton Korosec, the head of the Slovenian leading clerical party, against the government headed by the centralist Serb Nikola Pasic. This threat promptly waned because of the submissive capitulation of the promoters themselves, as clearly implied by the poet himself, a staunch supporter of Balkan federalism based on the right of peoples to self-determination. This dating proves that constructivism was the last evolutionary stage in Kosovel's poetry. The image of the bleeding jet solidifying into a radiant »vivid red ruby obelisk« in the third stanza finally echoes the similar image of »eine zuckende Blutsäule«, used by the German expressionist poet Ludwig Rubiner (1881-1920), the author of the anthology »Kameraden der Menschheit / Dichtungen zur Weltrevolution« (1919), a hitherto neglected source of inspiration for Kosovebs poetry. The paper finally proposes a psychoanalytic interpretation of the lapsus lecturae that led Anton Ocvirk to read the word Falzifikatorska in the manuscript as Fabrobikoborska, and identifies its unconscious drives in the early ideological divide that opposed the two young men during the last months of the poet's life. It culminated in 1928 with Ocvirk's letter of overt reactionary and obscurantist denunciation sent to the Catholic daily Slovenec, meant to denigrate Kosovel's memory as well as his closest friends and spiritual heirs who ran the leftist monthly Mladina. This divide was pointed out by Kosovel's friend Ivo Grahor in his two reviews of the collection of Kosovel's poems edited by Ocvirk in 1931.
The essay draws on the comparison between the interpretations of proletarian art provided by the Russian philosopher Alexander A. Bogdanov and by the Slovenian communist ideologue Dragotin Gustincic ...in the letter that Srecko Kosovel wrote to Josip Ribicic on 11 November 1922, as well as on the reverberant polemics that opposed Gustincic to Srecko's elder brother Stano in early spring 1922 on the spiritual crisis which grieved young Slovenian intellectuals after WWI and led Srecko to overcome his merely sentimental commitment to socialism and engage in a mature and informed siding of his communist comrades, as well as to replace his "velvet poetry" with a constructivistic one. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
