Publikacija SEP 2011 - Vilenica

continues Chartier, indirect knowledge has increased with the development
of the means of communication 6 . An author’s performance
therefore has the exact opposite effect: it provides a first-hand experience
of literature through the primary (by which I mean the oral
tradition of poetry) and unique means of communication, a type of
struggle for the existence of literature and its mission.
To conclude, to perform poetry is to communicate the essence of
poetry: with reading aloud on the one hand, the “technical” sides of
poetry come more vividly to life, such as its rhythm, rhyme etc., and
on the other, the author’s voice, the voice of the poem, speaks, speaks,
thus making poetry talk 7 : the poem’s essence is extended.
Translated by Špela Bibič
6 Bourdieu, Chartier, Ginzberg: Sociologija, zgodovina, književnost, (translated by Varja Balžalorsky,
Ignac Fock, Tomaž Jurca, Studia humanitatis, Ljubljana 2011, p. 122); Slovene
translation [Translator's note].
7 Anyone who has listened to the recitals of Dane Zajc knows what I mean.
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