Les Poemes Philosophique (Volume 1)

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Following his five-volume </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sculptum Est Prosa</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> treatise Ivan Kireevskii begins his new series entitled </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Les Poemes Philosophique. </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In this volume he wanders between solitude and solitude often chasing phantoms through an empty world condemned to an everlasting chase placed in the uncertainty and multiplicity called existentialism.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>He appears to leap from problem to problem with the ardor and agility of a flame</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>consuming and illuminating each in turn flashing up and burning to temporary extinction but never appeased.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The first reading demands patience derived from the confidence that with a second reading much or all will appear in quite a different light. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>It is a heavy chilly breath that emanates from his words yet there is a darkly glimmering light that surrounds them. Can life and the world be beautiful in spite of all the suffering cruelty and terrors of existence?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Jean-Paul Sartre considered by many to be the father of existentialism said  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>... </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>in anxiety man becomes aware of his freedom knows himself responsible for his own being...</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>So what exactly is existentialism? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Perhaps there is no direct or straightforward answer to this question. That which gathers itself into the term 'existentialism' is neither systematic nor uniform. The term 'existentialism' is itself scattered and hence rejects and sometimes abandons even itself. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Yet there also exists a certain philosophical togetherness lying at the heart of it. To this togetherness belong questioning freedom and its spheres thinking the meaning and implications of death and finitude.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Our existence as we know it is no longer transparent and understandable by reason. It is no longer bound together into a tight coherent structure. What has emerged is an image of man himself that bears a new stark more nearly naked and more questionable aspectstripping down of this being.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It is through Kireevskii's poems that we come face to face with the 'mystery' of Being. Here we will attempt to grasp the face of the ungraspable.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>As you enter this poet's world you must let Being be...let his words belong to the language of the wind which heralds a thaw.</span></p>