Summary
Jagor Bučan: There is a world
Organic, almost floral in the continuation and growth of motifs - this is a characteristic of Bučan's writing, whether we observe his essays through the prism of philosophizing in the form of essays, or we recognize the author's skill in his flashy forays into literary essay writing. The process of bridging the essayistic to the scientific is not as exemplary as it is in the case of Bucˇan, in the case of all domestic, even foreign, contemporary authors. Philosophical and artistic essays ideally contain an element of stylistic mirroring of the big in the small, the main theme in the motifs where the part must stand for the whole and vice versa, so there may be a kaleidoscopic regrouping of the elements of the main theme and its examples. We would say that Bucˇan is a master of mirror style, but the ease with which he paves the way between essayistic playfulness and scientific precision and analysis is particularly impressive. - Sibila Petlevski
a climate in which the sky has come down to earth, and in which instead of black clouds overhead, snow-white ones nestle under the feet of windmills that happily bounce on them. That world is neither above nor below, and even less beyond ours; he is in the midst of it, in order to transcend it at the same time with his transcending nature. In Constable, that blue world is garnished with enchanting clouds, in Turner with stormy whirlwinds, in Rembrandt with transparent gloom. It is not an aseptic climate like that of Lennon's infantile anarcholiberal utopia (even if it was topped with only sky). It is indeed an imaginary world, but at the same time it is more real than ours, which we like to pretend is real.Biblos Newsletter
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