Summary
Kalman Mesarić: Tragigrotesque
The fight against the tired, sick and dangerous everyday life in which changed social and intimate relationships reached the final point of self-destruction is the thematic basis of Mesarić's tragigrotesque lines. Precisely in lines, and not in verses, because traditional versification/syntactic/lexical forms and norms mean little to her, Mesarić unleashes her own critical and revolutionary spirit - in freed lexemes and syntagms, in newly assembled, Dadaist phrases, the author's heavy, dense and frantic energy tears and shouts against the substance of everyday life. Mesarić is all in an elemental, dramatic convulsion, in an antipoetic campaign against the gentle calm of the night and the soft hearts of gentle and sensual ladies, an energetic and indomitable opponent of great social expectations behind which hypocrisy and contempt thrive, and the needle's mark in the heart is ever deeper and more visible. Mesarić warns of the disappearance of the world, of its bright hopes, of the destruction of body, mind and spirit in a time and space that does not hear and does not see. The universe is empty, eaten away, dissolved and disintegrated, a tragic grotesque of only desired images and opportunities, a tragi-grotesque of blue nerves in the twilight, as the title of the author's last warning reads.
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