Summary
Zvonimir Mrkonjić: The Recycling Yard
The unpretentious title of Mrkonjić's new lyrical prose, The Recycling Yard, hides an ironic address to the unsightly and simple everyday life of our time. It seems to us that the author aligns and cancels them with a dialectic game, at the same time attracting and distracting our attention from the words we use. In the first reading, I wondered if it was a question of intentionally omitting the punctuation mark at the end of each two- or three-line phrase. Names, titles, selection of materials appear - seemingly - without conscious selection, spontaneously, similar to an associative movement or encompassing observations with a stylistic gamut that nevertheless takes care of the givenness of the moment and the importance of poetic telling. From Ants to the Twilight of Things, Mrkonjić interweaves in the space of his linguistic court a clear conception - we will not say conceptual for now - a picture of the world that equates the so-called banal with the so-called divine and, using the support in the experience of French poetry, dissolves and reassembles them in the manner of a distant connoisseur of poetry. - Lidija Vukčević
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