\u201cKada sam \u010ditao knjigu, glasoviti \u017eivotopis, \/\/ rekoh ja: pa zar je to ono \u0161to pisac zove \u010dovjekovim \u017eivotom? \/\/ i zar \u0107e tako neko pisati moj \u017eivotopis kada je preminem?\u201d \/\/ (kao da iko zbilja i\u0161ta zna o mojem \u017eivotu, \/\/ (…)”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Walt Whitman (1819\u20131892)<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
When I Read the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n WHEN I read the book, the biography famous,<\/p>\n And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man’s life?<\/p>\n And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?<\/p>\n (As if any man really knew aught of my life,<\/p>\n Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real<\/p>\n life,<\/p>\n Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections<\/p>\n I seek for my own use to trace out here.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n —<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kada sam \u010ditao knjigu<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kada sam \u010ditao knjigu, glasoviti \u017eivotopis,<\/p>\n rekoh ja: pa zar je to ono \u0161to pisac zove \u010dovjekovim \u017eivotom?<\/p>\n i zar \u0107e tako neko pisati moj \u017eivotopis kada je preminem?<\/p>\n (kao da iko zbilja i\u0161ta zna o mojem \u017eivotu,<\/p>\n kada \u010dak i ja s\u00e2m \u010desto mislim, kako malo ili ni\u0161ta ne znam o svojem zbiljskom \u017eivotu),<\/p>\n Samo malo naznaka, par slabih nejasnih ka\u017eiprsta na neodre\u0111enom putu<\/p>\n ovdje tra\u017eim da otkrijem za svoju nu\u017edu.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Preveo: Tin Ujevi\u0107<\/p>\n <\/p>\n —<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kad pro\u010ditah knjigu<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kad pro\u010ditah knjigu, glasovitu biografiju,<\/p>\n Da li je ovo (upitah se) ono \u0161to autor naziva<\/p>\n ljudskim \u017eivotom?<\/p>\n I tako \u0107e netko, kad ja umrem, opisati moj \u017eivot?<\/p>\n (Kao da bilo tko zna i\u0161ta o mome \u017eivotu,<\/p>\n Kad i sam mnim \u010desto da znam malo, ili ni\u0161ta,<\/p>\n o mom stvarnom \u017eivotu,<\/p>\n Tek par slutnja, nekoliko rasplinutih blijedih slika,<\/p>\n navje\u0161taja<\/p>\n Koje treba, za vlastite potrebe, da nabacim ovdje.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/whitman.jpg?fit=600%2C897&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52704,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52704","url_meta":{"origin":15460,"position":0},"title":"Predstavljanje knjige “Vladimir Vasiljevi\u0107: Moji do\u017eivljaji. 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