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Square 8°, 314 pp., with colour illustrations, original illustrated silver boards, black cloth spine with silver lettering, housed in an original box, made of two illustrated segments (Very Good, box hardly noticeably dusty and with minor wear on the edges, a tiny light stain on the first two pages The first edition of constructivist poetry by a Slovenian avantgarde poet Srecko Kosovel, written in the year of his death in 1926, was first published in 1967 with the design of a Yugoslav architect Anton Ocvirk. A Slovenian poet Srecko Kosovel is today considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets of avant-garde and constructivism. Kosovel was born in Tomaj, today a Slovenian town near Gorizia, but his parents moved him to Ljubljana in 1916 due to the nearby WWI Front of Isonzo. After the war Kosovel decided to stay in the capital, as his home town was annexed to Italy, where the Fascists soon started making a major pressure on the inhabitants. In Ljubljana Srecko Kosovel, by the time an extreme leftist, was writing poetry in an avant-garde circle of artists, many of whom escaped the Fascist regime themselves. During his lifetime Kosovel was unable to publish any of his works in books, as his poetry was not understood by a conservative circle of publishers. He died suddenly at the age of 22, when visiting his parents, of an illness, which followed a bad cold. A year after his death, in 1927, Kosovel's friend Alfonz Gspan published his late friend's 66 early poems in a collection Pesmi (Poems), the first separately issued publication bearing Kosovel's name. Kosovel's most brilliant work was written in the year of his death, in 1926. Heavily influenced by the contemporary Soviet art and poetry Kosovel composed his lyrics in unconventional forms, with a combination of various directions of writing and help of lines. The most spectacular poems are composed with words, cut out from newspapers and arranged in abstract shapes. Srecko Kosovel, who was by the time a convinced leftist, influenced by the major contemporary Communist literature, believed that the poems should not be read in a conventional way, but should encourage the observer to embrace the leftist movement and arouse revolutionary feelings. This magnificent series of constructivist poetry was Kosovel's last major work before his suddene of 22. They remained unpublished until 1967, when they were issued in this beautifully designed book, drafted by a Slovenian / Yugoslavian architect Joze Brumen (1930-2000). Presented are facsimiles of Kosovel's manuscripts and collages, parallelly with tries to put the lyrics in the printed version. The introduction was written by Anton Ocvirk (1907-1980), an author, literary historian and later a professor at the university. He started publishing in his late teens, when he first encountered Kosovel's poetry, still in the time of the poet's life. In 1931, Ocvirk edited the chosen poems by Srecko Kosovel, with pieces previously only published in the magazines. During WWII Ocvirk was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and was writing for the prisoner's magazine at the Munich-Freimann franchise of the concentration camp. References: OCLC 857921187, 560518347, 310710686, 456111775, 633104. N° de ref. del artículo 68445
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