Alakzat tört dimenzióban Az Agyonvert csipke újraolvasása
Formation in Fractional Dimension (Re-reading of Agyonvert csipke)

Summary/Abstract: Lace is one of the most important poetic categories of Otto Tolnai's mythologie personelle. This essay investigates the origin of the lace motif in Tolnai's writing and its cultural background (especially connections with Rilke and Michaux), along with a presentation of Tolnai's legendary book of verses Agyonvert csipke (untranslatable pun, 'beaten' or 'broken' lace), which was published in Novi Sad (former Yugoslavia) in 1969. The special design of this book (with the author's life-size photo-portrait on the cover, the author's own ironic collages in it etc.) shows the influence of contemporary surrealist movements. An interpretation of this visual layout along with Tolnai's guerrilla songs helps to understand the micro-politics (Deleuze) of Tolnai, who is a minority poet. The essay applies two approaches. The first one interprets the book published 35 years ago from the point of view of a present-day reader, while the second one follows the author's own re-reading of his early poetry as analysed in his extensive essay written three decades later. At the end we can see how the formation of the broken lace has become the symbol of poetics of infinity: the symbol of the most characteristic quality in Tolnai's writing.

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