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BKS: Kiklop, Ranko Marinković
Event by: BKS
Location: Theater Boka, Wollankstraße 112, Berlin - Bezirk Pankow
About event
Our next title is a bite of almost 600 pages. Get the book in time (e.g. in Stabi) and start reading as soon as possible!
About the book:
As soon as Kiklop, Ranko Marinković's first novel, was published, it was clear that it was a first-class work that would greatly mark the recent history of Croatian literature. And it was published in 1965, in the middle of a politically and culturally important decade, when the "old aces" had mostly already written their most important works, and the new harbingers of domestic prose expansion in the seventies were just beginning to emerge. The eminent bard stepped into that intermediate space with the novel Cyclops, which with its bursting intellectual fervor will correspond equally with new times as well as with tradition, and at the same time enchant with modernity and multi-layeredness, allusion, symbolism, allegory... In addition to calling and "calling out" the entire spectrum of European literary and artistic tradition, the attractiveness and receptivity of the novel are guaranteed by the vivid, intriguingly presented characters: Maestro, ATMA, Ugo, Krele, don Kuzma, Viviana, and most of all, Melkior Tresić, an almost eradicated type of intellectual who tries to preserve his sanity and a lively head between humiliating militarization and the appearance of civilian life and his own lucidity and complete banality. Because "life has chosen intelligence for its games, it does not make history with idiots", and the heavy and traumatizing "hora has come", pre-apocalyptic uncertainty and anxiety are omnipresent, a cruel all-out war rumbles, so the title mythological monster Cyclops is a metaphor for this coming bestial evil.
About the author:
Ranko Marinković (Vis, February 22, 1913 - Zagreb, January 28, 2001), was a Croatian writer and academic. In Zagreb, he graduated in Roman studies in 1935. After the Second World War, he worked at the Publishing House of Croatia. He then became the Director of Drama at the Zagreb National Theater, where he served between 1946 and 1950. A year later, in 1951, he became a professor at the Academy of Theater Arts in Zagreb, where he worked until his retirement. In 1983, he became a regular member of HAZU.
He died in Zagreb in 2001. He was buried in Komiža.
About the book:
As soon as Kiklop, Ranko Marinković's first novel, was published, it was clear that it was a first-class work that would greatly mark the recent history of Croatian literature. And it was published in 1965, in the middle of a politically and culturally important decade, when the "old aces" had mostly already written their most important works, and the new harbingers of domestic prose expansion in the seventies were just beginning to emerge. The eminent bard stepped into that intermediate space with the novel Cyclops, which with its bursting intellectual fervor will correspond equally with new times as well as with tradition, and at the same time enchant with modernity and multi-layeredness, allusion, symbolism, allegory... In addition to calling and "calling out" the entire spectrum of European literary and artistic tradition, the attractiveness and receptivity of the novel are guaranteed by the vivid, intriguingly presented characters: Maestro, ATMA, Ugo, Krele, don Kuzma, Viviana, and most of all, Melkior Tresić, an almost eradicated type of intellectual who tries to preserve his sanity and a lively head between humiliating militarization and the appearance of civilian life and his own lucidity and complete banality. Because "life has chosen intelligence for its games, it does not make history with idiots", and the heavy and traumatizing "hora has come", pre-apocalyptic uncertainty and anxiety are omnipresent, a cruel all-out war rumbles, so the title mythological monster Cyclops is a metaphor for this coming bestial evil.
About the author:
Ranko Marinković (Vis, February 22, 1913 - Zagreb, January 28, 2001), was a Croatian writer and academic. In Zagreb, he graduated in Roman studies in 1935. After the Second World War, he worked at the Publishing House of Croatia. He then became the Director of Drama at the Zagreb National Theater, where he served between 1946 and 1950. A year later, in 1951, he became a professor at the Academy of Theater Arts in Zagreb, where he worked until his retirement. In 1983, he became a regular member of HAZU.
He died in Zagreb in 2001. He was buried in Komiža.