Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009

29.11.2016 - St. J. Perse2 and Library of Congress etc...


dali48 and writing books and photographing in SHA etc...
 

08.10.2009 - Interpretation of dali48       

After the defeat of France in 1940 he was abruptly suspended and went into exile - was considered a dangerous adversary by the Vichy regime, and was deprived of his French citizenship - He found refuge in Washington, where he occupied a position as literary adviser to the Library of Congress...

This international versatility, the hallmark of the great traveller - constitutes moreover one of the themes often repeated in the poet's work...

Exil (Exile), 1942, and Vents (Winds), 1946, both written in America. They constitute an imposing statement of the uninterrupted cycle of degeneration and rejuvenation - while Amers (Seamarks), 1957, celebrates the sea - the eternal dispenser of power, the first cradle of civilizations...

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all "poetic" - in the proper sense of the word...

The mystery is common to both - And the great adventure of the poetic mind is in no way secondary to the dramatic advances of modern science... (St. J. Perse, Pres. Sp. 1960)


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Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009

29.11.2016 - I. Andric2 and personal isolation etc...


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Andric's writings are dominated by a sense of Kierkegaardian pessimism - and personal isolation...

Andric was 3 years old when his father, an artisan died of tuberculosis! - The family moved then to Visegrad, where he was raised by his mother - a strict Roman Catholic, and his aunt...

His time Andric devoted to reading the works of Fedor Dostoyevsky - and Sören Kierkegaard...

Other early literary efforts included also translations of Walt Whitman - and August Strindberg...

Much of the material for his stories, which could be called chronicles, came from the cultural heritage and centuries long struggle among the Yogoslavian people - Orthodoxes, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims - Catholic characters were portrayed more often than Orthodox...

His posts included the Vatican, Geneva, Madrid, Bucharest, Trieste, Graz, Belgrade, Marseille, Paris, Brussels and Berlin, as ambassador to Germany...

After the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 - he returned home and spent the war years writing in the occupied Belgrade - under German house arrest...

Through the metaphor of the bridge - the embodiment of endurance - Andric urged his readers to try to overcome their differences and live in harmony...

Andric enjoyed in his own country a great acclaim - and was the most widely translated Serbian writer...

In 1959 he married Milica Babic - a painter and designer. Andric died on March 13, 1975... (I. Andric, PAC)


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