This selection of poetry by Ján Buzássy offers a representative synthesis of poems that emerge from the poet’s own vision of mythological reality. Ancient and biblical motifs are reflected in the author’s uncompromising dissection, carried out with surgical precision, of the human character, revealing both the cultivation and the demise of moral values. Formal perfection and scrupulously precise craftsmanship provide the foundation for a profound experience in which readers may sense not only the fervour of the Christian, but also the serenity of the Stoic, as they embark on an exhilarating search for the truth of the self. The human parameters of Buzássy’s speech wanders towards the contemporary through different layers of time and do not exist without analogies to other literatures. With a foreword by the Slovak poet Marián Milčák and illustrations by Milan Prekop.
