Sul Campo Del Mare - Vilenica

V2-2010.PM51736/13/100, 12:14 PMViktória Radicsworlds. Is there not something shamanistic in reading, some trace of dervishritual, some sort of elevation?Even if the book is bad, this process still begins, but your spiritual guideis unpleasant and you cannot and do not feel like joining him. His falsehooddisappoints you; he has tricked you into a conceited, superficialworld; he tricked you into self-deceit, where you delude yourself and areled astray. As a lay reader, you discard the book; as a critical reader, youpunish it or blow into the same deceptive horn with it. But afterwards,you are very sorry. Just as Ottó Tolnai begins his Book of Poems:The EndYou’ve read so much bad literature by nowYou could have known what to expect atTHE ENDThis is one of my “oars”; the other one belongs to Marno and is takenfrom a poem with the title As a Poet:Skin as paper; put in a letterAll that should have been erased.In the real, exciting reading, you always reach a moment of graspingbeyond limits, like accepting the invitation of someone who cannot bedefined and is excluded, shamefully eliminated; like trespassing on noman’s land, on forbidden ground or into a highly dubious spiritual zone.All that is erased from the world of routine, all that should have beenerased or is even shameful - we crave to feel it louder and more strongly,even X-rayed in a way, emphasized as much as possible. A good readerwill enjoy that something new has been aroused in him, something healready thought to know or that would be revealed to him, something hedidn’t actually dare to think of. He will see every detail of what he couldmerely suspect in his dreams before. A message will be sent to him, andhe will actually receive a letter. His mailbox is always empty, but tomorrowthere will be the most wonderful, decisive, most sincere, hand-writtenletter in it.Between both quotations, everything that Danilo Kiš says in his storyJurij Golec has been hiding for a very long time, blunt and burning. Hesays he came to the tragic conclusion that a book can’t help you if you’rein a critical situation. In this case, your craving for proper literature is invain. The narrator becomes separated, plunging into depression: “I studiedvarious writers and books: Gnostics and the commentators on theGnostics, from Bruno Bettelheim’s Surviving, Lindemann’s AutogenicTraining, Destiny of Pleasure by a certain Olagnie, Goethe’s Elective Affinities,Braunschwig’s Days and Nights, Rosenfeld’s Psychotic States tonovels by Philip Roth, or even Bergman and his From the Life of the Marionettes,because I too believed in being a marionette, manipulated by173