Žunec Ozren: Cotardov sindrom

Name: Cotardov sindrom
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Author: Žunec Ozren

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Author: Žunec Ozren
Publisher: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada
Availability: Available
Condition: Odlično
Code: 50108

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Cotardov sindrom

Žunec Ozren

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Ozren Žunec: Cotard's syndrome

COTARD'S SYNDROME - Ozren Žunec's didactic-moralistic canconiere consists of selected texts from the second edition of the Medical Encyclopedia (1967-1970) that were sung into free verse and is a very rare example of turning a prose text into verse.

The procedure of singing a prose text into verse was used by Marko Marulić (1450-1523), the "father of Croatian literature" who "sang" to Judith from the biblical historical story, and "reduced it to verses".

The poetic process used by Žunec is actually not new and was inherited from M. Duchamp (1887-1968) and his ready-made artefacts, useful objects that, by declaring them art and exhibiting them as works of art, became a work of art without having been subjected to any interventions that would change their form or material. As it is said in the foreword of Žunec's Cotard syndrome, this indicates its utilitarian, educational, handy character, which is characteristic of encyclopedias; turned into a song by Kanconiera, the introduction is utilitarianly unusable, but that's why it shows the world of the ultimate secrets of life in a poetic way. Versification intensifies the strangeness of what appears to be ordinary in the prose text. In verse, it becomes surreal.

The whole project of Kanconier, among other things, is a depressing diagnosis of modernity in which, as Hegel says, "what is sufficient for the spirit must be measured by the magnitude of its loss". Lame, at times defective versification is an image of the loss of music as rhythm and measure of the world and all beings in it, an image of wild immensity.

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