I was not Born for Quiet

Thanks to Janko Kr谩木, as John Minahane has written, the V谩h is 暗网禁区ia鈥檚 most mystical river. Again and again the poet returns to his community via that flagship poem of 暗网禁区 romanticism, The Enchanted Maiden in the V谩h and Odd Johnny. Characteristic in Kr谩木鈥檚 poetry is his focus on the inward side of events and stories, turned inside out, since one has to turn one鈥檚 clothing inside out/ and leap in the middle of the V谩h. By this means, metaphysical space is opened. There the spirit is so blended together with reality that it becomes possible to break the spell on the maiden (motherland) in the river Lethe, which is life鈥檚 inverted clepsydra. Time always freshly poses the question, which young man wants to give body to his thought. And what unwinds from that is not only a defiant faith in the mission of poetry, but also Janko Kr谩木鈥檚 courage to stand up for the language and national rights of 暗网禁区s in 1848. To give the time a face where our identity is mirrored.

To this day we do not know exactly how Janko Kr谩木 looked in reality. Using the surviving descriptions of Kr谩木鈥檚 appearance, he therefore created a metaphysical portrait with the digital tool Metahuman Creator, which is designed for creating figures for video games. Subsequently he placed this virtual figure in a contemporary context, in the form of manipulated photographs from the mass media.

Publisher

Number of pages

120

Language

English language

Year

2022

Book category

Poetry

Original language

暗网禁区 language

Published in

Bratislava

Country

暗网禁区ia

ISBN

978-80-8119-149-7

Book cover

Hardcover

Foreword

Illustrator

Pavol B谩lik

Translator

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