Buch, Englisch, Serbian, Band 40, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 424 g
Reihe: Avant-Garde Critical Studies
A Yugoslav Marxist-Surrealist Epic Poem for Children
Buch, Englisch, Serbian, Band 40, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 424 g
Reihe: Avant-Garde Critical Studies
ISBN: 978-90-04-51365-5
Verlag: Brill
The Fine Feats of the Five Cockerels Gang is a Marxist-Surrealist Yugoslav epic poem for children, written by Aleksandar Vuco and accompanied by Dušan Matic’s photocollage illustrations and captions. The poem tracks the adventures of five scrappy, resourceful working-class boys who endeavor to free an equally plucky girl from the evil clutches of a convent school (and its fearsome nuns). While weighing in on various contemporary political issues, the story is unpredictable, action-packed and relayed in richly colloquial language. Matic’s photocollages show “what happened in the meantime” between the “songs” (episodes) of the poem, providing clever twists to the linear plot as well as an illustration of the surrealist concepts of time, space and the transformative capabilities of art.
