Boško Tomašević

Boško Tomašević (2005)

Boško Tomašević (born May 8, 1947 in Bečej , Serbia ) is a Serbian writer , literary theorist and founder of the school of essential poetry .

life and work

Boško Tomašević studied general literature and literary theory at the Philological Faculty of Belgrade University from 1967 to 1972 . There he received his doctorate in 1982 with a dissertation on the Cartesian foundations of the first-person novel. From 1976 to 1990 he worked in various press centers for media and communication research.

After 1990 he was at the universities of Nancy (1990–1996), Freiburg (1990, 1994, 2001), Vienna (1994, 1995, 1996), Erlangen 1998, Berlin (2000, 2001), Aachen (2005) and Innsbruck ( 1998–2001; 2009) active in research and teaching. His research interests include post-structuralist literary theory, the ontology of literature and the relationship between poetry and philosophy.

Tomašević is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts , the French and Austrian PEN clubs and the Société des gens de lettres de France .

poetics

In addition to writing literary, especially lyrical works, Tomašević dealt with fundamental ontology . The preoccupation with the ontology of the literary work led him to the primeval beginnings of language, poetry and thought, as these were defined by the pre-Socratic thinkers Heraclitus and Parmenides . Mediated through Heidegger's oeuvre, the research of these early philosophers influenced his poetics , which he presented in 2004 in the monograph Bitno pesništvo: pesnički manifesti i kraće rasprave o pesništvu (English: The essential poetry: a poetic manifesto and smaller treatises on poetry) .

Poetics of Essential Poetry

After 1976, Tomašević concentrated his literary work primarily on writing poetry . At the same time, however, he is also interested in the problem of the ontology of the literary work. The preoccupation with this problem led him to investigate the nature of language and the relationship between poetry and thought . Thus, influenced by Heidegger's work based on “ Being and Time ” (1927), between 1977 and 1983, based on Heidegger's “Philosophy of Essential Thought”, Tomašević's “Poetics of Essential Poetry” emerged as an expression of a poetic ontology that poetically created the Its thinks. The first principle of Tomašević's poetics is that poetry should above all be ontology, that aspect of literary expression that deals with singing the truth of being. Closely related to this first principle is the second, according to which poetry should sing of the essence of poetry or its relationship to truth and language as well as to thought.

Works of this poetics are: Tumačenje Helderlina (Interpretation of Hölderlin ) (1977) and Spomen na Martina Hajdegera (Memory of Martin Heidegger) (1980), both published in one volume under the title Čuvar vremena (Time Guard) (1990). In addition, the collection of poems Preispitivanje izvora (Review of Sources) (1995) and the cycle of poems Još jedna povest metafizike (Another history of metaphysics ) in the Appendix collection (2001).

Library Poetics and Culture

After 1983, after turning to the postmodern literary paradigm , Tomašević developed the “Poetics of the Library and Culture”, within which he tried - like Andrei Bely , Jorge Luis Borges or Edmond Jabès - to put his poetry in dialogue with some works of world literature step and thus make a proprietary contribution to the phenomenon of metal literature or literature in literature. The poetics of culture or the “world library” is a manifestation of the existence of an intertextual paradigm, which indicates that every text is the result of a previous text, that it is incomplete and processual.

Works of this poetics are: Kartezijanski prolaz (Cartesian passage) (1989), Celan-studije i druge pesme ( Celan studies and other poems) (1991), Ponavljanje i razlika (repetition and difference) (1993), Predeo sa Vitgenštajnom i druge ruševine (landscape with Wittgenstein and other ruins) (1995), Pesme ponavljanja i pesme razlike (poems of repetition and difference) in the collection Čistina i prisutnost (clearing and presence) (2000).

Poetics of the "Poetry of Experience"

After 1994 a new poetics emerged in which Tomašević's own experience, the experience of his being there, is reflected, the poetics of the poetry of experience . Man experiences reality as part of his own ontological scheme. The poetic concept of experience refers on the one hand to the life experience of the author himself, on the other hand to the disclosure of the general human experience of the everyday existence of man in the world. In poetry it is manifested how it relates to the time of man on earth, to his being as a temporal and historical being. Showing a universal human experience is the sine qua non of this poetics.

Works of this poetics are: the poetry collections Plan povratka (plan to return) and Sezona bez Gospoda (season without a master) , the cycle Doba približavanja (time of rapprochement) in the collection Nigde (nowhere) , and the collections Plodovi pohoda (fruits of the Visitation ) and Nikud (nowhere) as well as the poems Studija testamenta (study of the testament) and Arheologija praga (archeology of the threshold) .

Single track

Poetry books

• Kartezijanski prolaz (Cartesian passage). Institut za slavistiku, Göttingen 1989.
• Čuvar vremena (time guard). Sfairos, Beograd 1990.
• Celan Etudes i druge pesme (Celan studies and other poems). Edicija Krovovi, Sremski Karlovci 1991.
• Videlo žiška ( light of the match). Biblioteka 37, Sombor 1992.
• Svetlost za iskop (light for the excavation). Lazarica Press, Birmingham 1992.
• Ponavljanje i razlika / Repétition et différence (Repetition and difference). Presses de Université de Nancy II, Nancy 1992.
• Ugarci ( traces of fire). Presses de Université de Nancy II, Nancy 1994.
• Celan-Ètudes. Cahiers Bleues . In French translation. Troyes 1994.
• Predeo sa Vitgenštajnom i druge ruševine (landscape with Wittgenstein and other ruins). Wiener Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1995.
• Preispitivanje izvora (review of sources). Presses de Université de Nancy II, Nancy 1995.
• Plan povratka (plan of return). Svetovi, Novi Sad (1996).
• Druga istorija književnosti (Another literary history). Svetovi, Novi Sad 1997.
• Sezona bez Gospoda (season without a master). Svetovi, Novi Sad 1998.
• Studija testamenta (study of the will). Svetovi, Novi Sad 1999.
• Čistina i prisutnost (clearing and presence). Apostrof, Beograd 2000.
• Pustinje jezika (language deserts). Apostrof, Beograd 2001.
• Appendix . Svetovi, Novi Sad 2001.
• Leto moga jezika (The summer of my language). Svetovi, Novi Sad 2002.
• Nigde (nowhere). Apostrof, Beograd 2002.
• Kureluk moga nezadovoljstva (Kureluk of my dissatisfaction). Lux Color Printing, Bečej 2004.
• Nova uzaludnost (renewed futility). Svetovi, Novi Sad 2005.
• Plodovi pohoda. Conquistador (Fruits of the Visitation. Conquistador). Narodna knjiga, Beograd 2008.
• Arheologija praga. Fukoova ostavština (Archeology of the Threshold. Foucault's Legacy). Svetovi, Novi Sad 2008.
• Pesme od lipovog i bagremovog drveta (poems from the linden and acacia trees). Art-Projekat, Zrenjanin 2009.
• Kuda i nazad (Where to and Back). časopisno izdanje Unus Mundus, Niš 2009.
• Arhiv (archive). Prometej, Novi Sad 2009.
• Nikud (nowhere). Braničevo, Požarevac 2011.
• Selected poems . Volume I. Nova Misao, Novi Sad 2012.
• Selected poems . Volume II. Nova Misao, Novi Sad 2013.
• Serene knowledge of failure . Treći trg, Beograd 2015.
• Forgetting what we are becoming . Adresa, Novi Sad 2015.

Poetry books in German translation

• Cool memories . Wiener Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1994.
• Conversation in Heidelberg . Schramm Verlag, Stuttgart 1998.
• Celan meets H. and C. in Todtnauberg . Verlag Das Arsenal, Berlin 2005.
• Chants to Innsbruck . Berenkamp, ​​Innsbruck 2006.
• Renewed futility . Edition New Paths, Sangerhausen 2009.
• Exercises when in doubt . Verlag im Proberaum, Klingenberg 2010.
• Fruits of the visitation . Leipziger Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2011.
• Berlin poems . Aphaia Verlag, Berlin 2011.
• Very recent futility . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2011.
• Selected poems . Podium Verlag, Vienna 2012.
• Cracks . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2015.
• Forgetting what we are becoming.  Poems from a damaged life . Translated from the Serbian by Helmut Weinberger. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2016,  ISBN 978-3-85409-807-2 .
• The abyss under every ground . Translated from the Serbian by Helmut Weinberger. Edition Art Science, St. Wolfgang 2017. ISBN 978-3-902864-72-7 .
• Reflection . Arovell Verlag, Gosau / Vienna 2017.

Novels

• Zakasneli izveštaj jednoj akademiji (A belated report to an academy). Löwenzahn Verlag, Innsbruck 2000.
• Niko, nigde. Pripovest arheologija (Nobody, nowhere. An archaeological tale). Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2018.

Literary studies

• Cartesian novel (Kartezijanski roman) • Naučna knjiga - Beograd (1989)
• From the experience of being and poetry. Drafts for an ontology of poetry (Iz iskustva bitka i pevanja. Nacrt za jednu ontologiju pesništva) • Naučna knjiga - Beograd (1990)
• Self-destructive theories. Literary theory and the spirit of postmodernism (Samorazorne teorije. Književna teorija i duh postmodernizma) • Naučna knjiga - Beograd (1994)
• Infinite exchange. Fundamental ontology as the theory of poetry (Beskonačna zamena. Fundamentalna ontologija kao teorija poezije) • Svetovi - Novi Sad (1997)
• Poetry and thinking about being (Poezija i mišljenje bića) • Apostrof - Beograd (1998)
• Final literary theory. A postmodern perspective (Konačna teorija književnosti. Jedna postmodernistička perspective) • Prosveta - Beograd (2001)
• Poetry, literary theory, existence (Pesništvo, književna teorija, egzistencija) • Prosveta - Beograd (2003)
• The essential poetry: a poetic manifesto and smaller treatises on poetry (Bitno pesništvo. Pesnički manifesti i kraće rasprave o pesništvu) • Apostrof - Beograd (2004)
• Galilean poetics. Sketches on the metaphors of writing (Galilejevska poetika. Ogledi o metaforama pisanja) • Stylos - Novi Sad (2004)
• Hermeneutics of the opaque. Poetry, ontology, hermeneutics (Hermeneutika neprozirnog. Pesništvo, ontologija, hermeneutika) • Plato - Beograd (2006)
• Hammer without a master. Critical writings (Čekić bez gospodara. Kritički spisi) • Braničevo - Požarevac (2009)
• Essays on literary theory. Literary theory and the Derridian revolution (Ogledi o književnoj teoriji. Književna teorija i deridijanska revolucija) • Altera - Beograd (2011)
• Against a literary theory (Protiv književne teorije) • Akademska knjiga - Novi Sad (2011)
• Thinking of Writing (Mišljenje pisanja) • Mali Nemo - Pančevo (2012)
• Emergence of being. The ontological process of poetry • Traugott Bautz Verlag - Nordhausen (2014)
• The book about René Char • Sent - Novi Pazar (2015)

Quotes about poetry

“Poetic saying leads things to their presence. This presence is the saying itself. Through interpretive understanding, poetry shows the world as it shows itself to us in its presence. Poetry is ontology in the most original sense of the word: talk about the essence of the existence of being. "

“Poetry explores the looking of mortal being into the openness of being. This is what the poet does, who understands poetry as a coaxing of his being to speak about this world by liberating through language everything that he encounters in the world. This linguistic nature of human experience of the world contains an indication of how things are with beings themselves. "

“Poetry sings of the closeness of things within human habitation. It lets what is present, what goes away and what comes towards people, become visible. The neighborly proximity of poetry in everyday human life leads to a gathering of being around what is next: around the fireplace that preserves man's basic trust in the world. "

“Poetry within true poetry is poetry about beings from the standpoint of truth about beings. Because 'the thinking of being is the original way of poetry'. "

"We cannot compose a single poem outside of illusion and error."

“Every poem is absolute. It says the existence of being. Hence its simplicity. "

"Since the poem is language, but the language is my world, the language points to the limits of my world within the language used in the poem."

“Every existing poem is the germ of a new one. The poetry of the new Alexandrism is based on the poetics of intertextuality, that is, on the most sophisticated and influential poetics of the 20th century. "

"The poetry of intertextuality is dominated by the infinitistic metaphysics of the text, by 'textual transcendence', by transtextuality."

"Every real poem contains a singing of the essence of the existence of being, the human experience of being and the memory of a library."

“True poetry sings of what Greek thought calls alétheia : purity and presence . Both are contained in the first word of existence, in language. "

"Poetry and being are the same."

“To be a poet means: to show some things to their essence by locating them in the essence of language. It also means speaking in the most immediate way about the experience of being in its being. It is a privilege of true poetry that it speaks from the very essence of this relationship. "

“Poetry as an attempt at poetry of being is a field of openness on the way to truth about beings. It is an inexhaustible flow of thinking being and life, drawn from its source: poetry itself. "

"The poem brings to light that which exists in its existing states and thus the responsibility for what it sings about and what it says."

“Poetry reflects the individuality of being of existence on its way to the other. It is a giving : a leading of the being of existence to the final goal of world history through its self-presentation or through the voice of its conscience. "

"Poetry and thinking dwell (exist) in language and through language belong to the realm of the essence: an existence that is open, understood and understood for the world."

“True poetry (ontological poetry) must have a feeling for the repeated question about being: the leading of being into its own peculiarity. This ' leading ' is originally called aghibasie : “going-into-the-proximity-of-being” and it tries to find the light of being again in what Parmenides said: for there is being . "

literature

• Traian Pop (Ed.): Bawülon . 7th edition. Main topic: Boško Tomašević . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2012, pp. 20–71.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bitno pesništvo: pesnički manifesti i kraće rasprave o pesništvu

Web links

• http://boskotomasevic.net/
• Interview with Boško Tomašević
• Agon (in Serbian)
• Književni pregled (in Serbian language)
• Društvo književnika Vojvodine (in Serbian)
• Biblioteka ABVG (in Serbian)