fs-i "2004". Linnamängud värvidega ja ilma
Urban Games With and Without Colours

Summary/Abstract: The book "2004" by Estonian poet fs is analysed as a text collection reflecting modern urban environment. First the poet's vision of the city is described by its colour spectrum, which consists mainly of black and dark tones only seldom con trasted by a brighter patch. The main landmarks of fs's cityscape are dust, cold, smells, machines, and certain social phenomena such as loneliness, poverty and hunger. It is pointed out that unlike a typical modernist poet fs is not trying to escape from the depressing city by the opposition of civilisation and wilderness, emphasizing instead the inescapability of a wild aggression of the urbanistic culture and thus the necessity to find some strategies for co-existence with the city. Another point discussed is the ambivalent relation of fs to a poet's "job" as well as the split identity of a city dweller in general.

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