Summary
Ivan Berislav Vodopija: Dead nature and a living heart
Conceptually, the epistolary stanzas have a balladic atmosphere, the realization that only a flourishing illusion, Calderon's dream and unresolved questions remained of the values on which a better world should be based. Is there a projection of a tailor-made world, a world for which it is worth drowning the last drop of red in white disappearance? Vodopia is a book of letters of books about loneliness addressed to deaf recipients under a human vault where the warm colors of the world are bleached to silence: the white silence in the memories of a lonely walker, John Barry. His "cases" are not Harmsian, literary, he is not interested in shock or surprise as a result of bizarreness and grotesque illogic, because his human and literary nature is different, because his loneliness is Rousseauian - that is why it is easy to identify with Barry's inner questions and the projected tension between dead nature (gone beings, futile sensations and unimportant phenomena) and a living heart that still gently guards uncorrupted ideals. (...) In this prose/cryptopoetic, unusual book, Vodopija collected sincere and suggestive lines, hit where it is not easy to hit - in the inconsolable heart of the reader. A direct, rare hit in the center of the red.
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