Poetry
Amžinas žydas
Not translated into English
Bernardas Brazdžionis · 1931
Synopsis
De wandelende Jood: the poems of a young poet in search of his path, placed under the biblical figure of the eternal traveller. Three veins cross in it: a symbolism of nature and emotions, a symbolism of the city and civilisation, and a biblical and Christian symbolism of the East, nourished by liturgy, images from the Old and New Testaments and direct quotations. The poem readily takes the form of a psalm or a modern hymn, built on dramatic conflicts and oppositions.
Context
The book appeared in Kaunas in 1931, from Demikis. Tomas Venclova regards it as the most modern of its author's collections, in which he took formal risks judged almost shocking at the time, and the book surprised the literary world. Venclova also recalls the author's ties with poets close to the journal Trečias frontas, whose urban poetics was close to his own. The collection was reissued in 1943 under another title in an anthology of his work.
Who it is for
A collection of religious and modernist poems, full of biblical allusions; no French or English translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
The book that established its author's reputation, confirmed two years later by his next collection.
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