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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is a quintessential political novel, in true sense of that word, of the present and last century. Krleza is a master of dialog, in a smoke-filled room where political decisions are made, heads put on a butcher's block, and destinies of whole nations decided. The questions it asks of the reader are simple but eternal: Can armchair liberals (intellectuals) triumph over tyrannical persons of action (Hamlet vs. Claudius)? How can one love a homeland that one hates? Are politics inevitably immoral just as they are inevitable? If so, how to minimize that immorality: force of law, culture, civil society, revolution (violent, bloody, a hog that eats its own sow), or, is brute force sometimes the only solution? Krleza wrote this novel at the hight of Stalinist terror, looking back at the botched project of nation-building and utopia socialism. It testifies to the fact that in modern age politics, in a narrow sense of the word, is destiny. To paraphrase a time-tested shibboleth: You may not care about politics, but politics certainty cares about you. ps. the word play is lost in translation, which is almost always the case. Blitva-pun on Croatian for Cabbage (cale)and Lithuanian-means literally "Land of Cabbage". Its neighboring nation Blatva--pun on Croatian for Mus and Latvia--means literally "Land of Mud", a quagmire. Barutanski, the dictator = son of powder keg. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Colonel Kristian Barutanski, overlord of the mythical Baltic nation of Blitva, has freed his country from foreign oppression and now governs with an iron fist. He is opposed by Niels Nielsen, a melancholy intellectual who hurls invective at the dictator and the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of society. Barutanski himself despises the sycophants beneath him and recognizes in Nielsen a genuine foe; but Nielsen, haunted by his own lapses of conscience, struggles to escape both the regime and the role of opposition leader that is thrust upon him. Miroslav Krleza is considered one of the most important Central European authors of the twentieth century. In his career he was a poet, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, essayist, journalist, and travel writer. He also suffered condemnation as a leftist and a practitioner of modernism and his books were proscribed in the 1930s. The first two books of the trilogy The Banquet in Blitva were written in the thirties and their comments on political, psychological, artistic, and ethical issues earned him the enmity of Yugoslavia's increasingly fascist government. He did not write and publish the third book in the trilogy until 1962. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Okay, so a dramatist wrote a political satire of Yugoslavia in the 1930s, a tumult of ideology, how is the novel structured? Krleza is a Henry James of despair. Each character knows he’s doomed. The assassin who takes care of the wet work, knows glory and duty are moribund. The artists and journalists depicted liken themselves to whipped curs, tails between their legs and shouldering the way to the carrion. Krleza shifted the location of the narrative from the Balkans to the Baltics, inventing a pair of nations (Blitva and Blatvia) whose origins echo that of Serbia and Croatia. This was endeavored for sound reasons. Finding himself in bad favor for actually acknowledging and condemning the Stalinist purges, Krleza created some topical breathing room with his authorial license. Banquet in Blitva isn’t enjoyable but rather a powerful aesthetic and emotional experience.
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