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Gedichte - Poems

By Janko Messner

Gedichte - Poems

By Janko Messner

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Janko Messners Lyrik, die der kanadische Autor und ?bersetzer Tom Priestly aus dem slowenischen Original ins Englische ?bertragen hat, umfasst nicht nur politische Gedichte und Balladen ("Nach Auschwitz", "Eines Tages", "Nicaragua mein geliebtes"), sondern auch eine gro?e Zahl von zart-empfindsamen Liebesliedern in der Nachfolge Heinrich Heines, welche tiefe Einblicke in die Seele des Autors gew?hren, Gedichte an seine Musen, die ihn durchs Leben begleitet haben. Seine satirischen Texte weisen ihn als Vertreter der kritischen europ?ischen Intelligenz aus, der die globalen Miseren, Kriege, Naturausbeutung und moderne Sklaverei, als seine Hauptthemen sah und als Mann des Wortes zu Verbesserung der sozialen und politischen Lage der Menschen beitragen wollte. Wenn auch die Prosa das Hauptgebiet von Janko Messners schriftstellerischer Arbeit war ("K?rntner Heimatbuch", Kitab-Verlag 2005), so sind die "Gedichte/Poems" Beispiele daf?r, wie ein Autor jenseits aller Motivik den "Topos", den "Locus amoenus" sucht, der den Menschen an einen urspr?nglichen, kosmisch-eingebetteten Ort des Lebens zur?ckf?hrt - zur?ck zum aphroditischen Prinzip. The two moods Laughter and Anger are the main themes chosen by Canadian trans-lator Tom Priestly for his selection of political and satirical poems by Janko Messner. He thereby identifies the lyrical means of expression that characterize the poet: his anger, his rage in the face of global calamities, of wars, the exploitation of nature, and modern slavery; and his Homeric mockery of the world which once promised so much improvement, from Central Europe to Central America, to which he dedicated the cycle of poems in his 1998 book Nicaragua mein geliebtes/Nikaragva moja ljubljena [Nicaragua my Beloved] that was so admired by Erich Fried and Ernesto Cardenal. If the chief achievement of Messner's creative work is prose - as the book K?rntner Heimatbuch [Carinthian Home Book](Kitab 1980) shows - then his political and love poems, the latter continuing the tradition of Heinrich Heine, are this Carinthian Slovenian's brilliant contribution to European poetry of the turn of the century. Together with his Cigave je ta zemlja naSa? [Whose Is This Our Land?] (Norea 2002), B?sne/Pesmi/Poems (Norea 1998) and Ausgew?hlten Werken [Collected Works] (Drava 2009-11), the present poetry selection in English and German is another tile in the mosaic portraying Janko Messner the poet.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
56
Release Date:
2013-04-09
Publication Date:
2013-04-09
Publisher:
Kitab Verlag
Languages:
Original: German, Original: English
ISBN10:
3902878207
ISBN13:
9783902878205
Weight:
93 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
7 cm

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