Summary
Aleksandar Tišma: Poems and records
Tišma's poetry is not a poetry of sentiment, but rather objective in observation, analytically rational in reflection, neutral in attitude and expression, and even shocking in highlighting key motifs and natural details. At the same time, the process of poetic defamiliarization in Tišma does not take place so much on the linguistic and stylistic level as on the level of the entire poem. Also, it could be said that one of the characteristics of this poetry does not lie in its focus on the phenomenon of the beautiful, the bright, the sublime, but rather on what would rather correspond to the aesthetics of the ugly and shocking, that which has weakened or decayed in life. Tišma's texts in the Records belong to the genre of critical-essayist literary practice. Among them are those that were written as presentations of current books of the literary production of the time, and which the author writes mainly at the beginning of his entry into literature, but also essay texts that are characterized by a freer internal arrangement.
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