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Srečko Kosovel () (18 March 1904 – 26 May 1926) was a post–First World War Slovene poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets.〔(A bi-lingual feature on the Slovenian poet Srečko Kosovel ), ''Poetica'' radio series, 3 August 2013, Australian Broadcasting Corporation〕 He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region, a political poet resisting forced Italianization of the Slovene areas annexed by Italy, an expressionist, a dadaist, a satirist, and as a voice of international socialism, using avant-garde constructivist forms.〔Jackson, R. (2010): Introduction, in: ''Look Back, Look Ahead: Selected Poems by Kosovel'', Ugly Duckling Press, 2010, ISBN 1933254548〕 He is now considered a Slovenian poetic icon. Most of Kosovel's works were published almost four decades after his early death at 22. In his homeland, Kosovel entered the 20th Century Slovene literary canon as a poet who produced an impressive body of work of more than 1000 drafts, among them 500 complete poems, with a quality regarded as unusually high for his age.〔 ==Life== Srečko Kosovel was born as the youngest of five children to father Anton Kosovel, a Slovene teacher, who was not allowed to continue teaching in Slovene language after the Austrian Littoral was annexed by Italy with Treaty of Rapallo (1920),〔Pirjevec, Marija (2004). "Srečko Kosovel in slovenstvo", ''Primorska srečanja'' 273〕 and mother Katarina (née Streš) who was 40 years old at the time of his birth and nurtured the artistic talents of their children. Kosovel's sister played the piano and one of his brothers was an aspiring writer, too. Born in Sežana, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kosovel lived in the nearby village of Tomaj until 1924. Before the annexation of his native Karst by Italy, he familiarized himself with works of Slovene culture in general, especially Slovene literature, as well as drama at the Slovene theatre in Trieste, housed in the Trieste National Hall, the cultural center of Slovenes in Trieste.〔(K kot Kosovel, kons, konstruktivizem, Kvintilijan ), ''Žurnal24'', 9 February 2012〕 Kosovel has been compared to Rimbaud,〔Brooks, David (2008), (Introduction ), in: ''The Golden Boat: Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel'', p. 2, ISBN 1844714373〕 sharing the young age at which they were exposed to human suffering during war. The Isonzo Front—one of the worst engagements of the First World War, which began when Kosovel was 12 and officially ended when he was 17—was near Kosovel's native village, and Rimbaud’s native village was near the battles of the Franco-Prussian War. Kosovel had regular contacts with wounded soldiers and saw corpses because the battlefield was only some 15 kilometers from his home, which had a traumatizing effect on him. His parents wanted him to be removed from the vicinity of the war, and so in 1916 both he and his sister moved to Ljubljana, where he stayed until his early death. With the Treaty of Rapallo and Italian annexation of Slovene territories, including his native Karst region, Kosovel felt robbed of his beloved landscape because this and all Slovene schools and organizations were forbidden by the Fascist regime. Slovene intellectuals were subjected to reprisals, and this has been called one of the tragedies of his short life, evoking in him grief, anger, displacement, and disorientation.〔Brooks, David (2008), (Introduction ), in: ''The Golden Boat: Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel'', p.8, ISBN 1844714373〕 This was especially because his new homeland, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, also showed no interest in the suffering of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947) under the Fascist regime in Italy. Even in his negotiations with Italy in 1923, when Benito Mussolini wanted to modify the Rappallo borders in order for Italy to annex the still-independent state of Rijeka, King Alexander preferred "good relations" with Italy over the proposals for border corrections at Postojna and Idrija proposed by SHS Prime Minister Nikola Pašić.〔Čermelj, L. (1955). (Kako je prišlo do prijateljskega pakta med Italijo in kraljevino SHS ) (How the Friendship Treaty between Italy and the Kingdom of SHS Came About in 1924), ''Zgodovinski časopis'', 1-4, p.195〕 This led to Kosovel's political and artistic radicalization. He had contacts with the radical political and insurgent anti-Fascist organization TIGR.〔(Bil je zelo živahen mladenič, a sam ), ''Primorske novice'', 26 March 2012〕 In 1926, he visited the Yugoslav town of Zagorje to perform one of his recitals, and while waiting for the train to return to Ljubljana caught a cold, which eventually developed into meningitis. He returned to his home village of Tomaj, where he died on 26 May 1926. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Srečko Kosovel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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