The Sonnets

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Category:
ARTWORK
Type:
computer art / installation art
Keywords:
computer art / installation / meaning / poetry / text
Creation Date:
1992
Description:
Introduction to The Phraseological Dictionary. The idea of compiling The Phraseological Dictionary emerged one yearafter the publication of The Sonnets. These 365 days are a completely fortuitous number. I emphasise this point in order to avoid suspicions that I am trying to "explicate" the poems. If it had been so, the year when the six volumes of the Sonnets existed without the Dictionary, would have been a meaningless year for their reader. The Phraseological Dictionary does not cover all the Sonnets. It refers directly only to Volume One. In other words, it is the Dictionary of the Language of Volume One. Producing the Dictionary does not enrich Volume One, nor does it impoverish other Volumes, since the Sonnets exist as entities of Absolute Poetry. (...) (W.B.)

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Original Title (Hungarian):
Szonettek
Additional Information:
Dot matrix printer, paper, computer, monitor, speakers, book.