The diploma thesis deals with the character of Narcissus in the poem Narcissus speaks by Paul Valéry and the echo sonnet Narcissus and Echo by Boris A. Novak. I used Ovid’s Metamorphoses as an ancient version of the myth of Narcissus, and I also mentioned some other authors who worked on this motif. The first part of the thesis is intended to introduce the story and therefore deals with the first records of this myth, while the second, more extensive part focuses on the poems written by Valéry and Novak and on the differences between them. The aim of the thesis is to study the changes that the hero of the ancient myth went through in order to get his present image.
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