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Title:Rak kot telesna ilustracija duševnega stanja : o Marsu Fritza Zorna
Authors:ID Kondrič Horvat, Vesna (Author)
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URL https://ojs-gr.zrc-sazu.si/primerjalna_knjizevnost/issue/view/753
 
Language:Slovenian
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FF - Faculty of Arts
Abstract:Razprava analizira delo švicarskega avtorja Fritza Zorna Mars, kultno knjigo sedemdesetih let, v kateri pripovedovalec, mlad učitelj iz bogate meščanske družine, le-to in švicarsko družbo obtožuje za to, da je po dolgotrajni depresiji zbolel za rakom (za katerim je umrl, še preden je knjiga izšla). V objavo je rokopis priporočal – in zanj napisal obsežen predgovor – takrat že renomirani pisatelj Adolf Muschg, ki je samega sebe označil za hipohondra in veliko pisal o psihosomatskih boleznih, za katerimi boleha sodobni človek, saj svojih stisk ne zmore izraziti drugače. Tudi Fritz Zorn svojo bolezen označi kot psihosomatsko. Toda že Muschg pravi, da je bolezen le motivacija za ustvarjanje, cilj pisanja je zanj vedno estetska ambicija, vendar pa brez bolezni morda ne bi pisal. Isto ugotavlja tudi za avtorja knjige Mars, ki jo je treba brati tudi kot literarno delo in ne le kot kritiko. Analiza pokaže, kako Zorn v izrazito avtobiografsko obarvanem zapisu oriše razvoj svoje psihosomatske bolezni. Na koncu samega sebe označi kot »božji karcinom«, do koder so ga pripeljali na videz srečno otroštvo, mladost in prva službena leta. Celotno knjigo lahko razumemo kot vojno napoved zlagani meščanski družbi, katere žrtev so bili tudi Zornovi »ubogi straši«, kot jim pravi sam.
Keywords:švicarska književnost, avtobiografska literatura, bolezen, družbena pogojenost, rak
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:01.01.2024
Year of publishing:2024
Number of pages:str. 117-129
Numbering:Letn. 47, št. 1
PID:20.500.12556/DKUM-89331 New window
UDC:821.112.2(494).09-312.6Zorn F.
ISSN on article:0351-1189
COBISS.SI-ID:195523075 New window
DOI:10.3986/pkn.v47.i1.07 New window
Publication date in DKUM:02.08.2024
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Title:Primerjalna književnost
Shortened title:Primer. književ.
Publisher:Društvo za primerjalno književnost SR Slovenije
ISSN:0351-1189
COBISS.SI-ID:8744704 New window

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Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:P6-0265-2019
Name:Medkulturne literarnovedne študije

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Language:English
Title:Cancer as a physical illustration of the mental state
Abstract:The article analyses the book Mars by the Swiss author Fritz Zorn. A cult book from the 1970s, Mars features a narrator, a young teacher from a wealthy, bourgeois family, who accuses both his family and Swiss society of causing his cancer, after a prolonged period of depression. Zorn died of cancer before Mars was published. The publication of the book was recommended by the renowned writer Adolf Muschg who labelled himself a hypochondriac and wrote extensively about psychosomatic illnesses that afflict modern humans, since they cannot express their anguish otherwise. Fritz Zorn also described his illness as psychosomatic. But Muschg also said that illness is only a motiva-tion for writing, while the real goal is always aesthetic ambition. Nevertheless, absent the illness, he might never have become a writer. The same obviously holds true for the author of Mars, a book that one should read not only as social critique but simultaneously as fiction. The analysis demonstrates how Zorn’s book, with its salient autobiographical feel, tries to outline the history of his psychosomatic illness. At the end the author calls himself “god’s carci-noma” and claims he was driven to this stage through a childhood, youth and the beginning of employment as a teacher that were only apparently fortunate. The whole book should be considered as a declaration of war on a false bour-geois society, other victims of which were Zorn’s “poor parents,” as he labels them throughout the book.
Keywords:Swiss literature, autobiographical writing, illness, social conditioning, cancer


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