The Library Of Lasko
you are invited in the Year of Ashker
to lecture
St. Nicholas the Wonderworker: immortality
Tuesday, 21. April 2026,
at 19. hours at the library
Miklavz Komelj (1973), son of Milcz Komelj and Nada Shumi, is a literary historian and poet. He studied art history at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1996 and received his doctorate in 2002 with the thesis meanings of nature in Tuscan painting of the first half of the 14th century. century, for which he received the Golden sign award of the ZRC SAZU. Before that, in 1999-2002, he was a young researcher at the France Stelet Institute of art history. So far, he has published 16 books of poetry, 3 books of short prose, the novel hide me, Snow, a dramatic poem cannot wait in vain and a book of paintings with the same title, a scientific monograph how to think partisan art? , a treatise by Yugoslav Surrealists today and here, a collection of essays the necessity of poetry and hierarchy, and several more shorter book works and several translations.
At a lecture in the library, he will start from the Ashkerch cup of immortality : in it, Ashkerch highlights something that sets itself in a person as his fundamental search, as a gon that resists death. This idea is also alive in The Ballad of the earthquake: even when the church, in which a crowd with an anti-earthquake song has gathered, collapses in the earthquake, the same song continues to echo from it. Taking an original look at Ashkerc's creation, Komelj will focus his attention mainly on the later period of his poetry. This usually met with a reluctant reception, as his contemporaries repeatedly accused him of excessive insistence that he always have to produce new books. Komelj also recognizes literary historical significance and value in this part of Ashkerc's oeuvre.
We cordially invite you to our own interpretation of Ashkerc and look forward to meeting you!
Knjižnica Laško
vas v Aškerčevem letu vabi
na predavanje
Miklavža Komelja: Aškerčeva nesmrtnost
v torek, 21. aprila 2026,
ob 19. uri v Knjižnici Laško
Miklavž Komelj (1973), sin Milčka Komelja in Nade Šumi, je literarni zgodovinar in pesnik. Študiral je umetnostno zgodovino na Filozofski fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, kjer je leta 1996 diplomiral in leta 2002 doktoriral z disertacijo Pomeni narave v toskanskem slikarstvu prve polovice 14. stoletja , za katero je prejel nagrado Zlati znak ZRC SAZU. Pred tem je bil v letih 1999−2002 mladi raziskovalec na Umetnostnozgodovinskem inštitutu Franceta Steleta. Doslej je objavil 16 knjig poezije, 3 knjige kratke proze, roman Skrij me, sneg , dramsko pesnitev Ni mogoče čakati zaman in knjigo slik z istim naslovom, znanstveno monografijo Kako misliti partizansko umetnost? , razpravo Jugoslovanski nadrealisti danes in tukaj , zbirki esejev Nujnost poezije in Hierarhija ter še nekaj krajših knjižnih del in več prevodov.
Na predavanju v knjižnici bo izhajal iz Aškerčeve Čaše nesmrtnosti : Aškerc v njej izpostavi nekaj, kar se v človeku postavlja kot njegovo temeljno iskanje, kot gon, ki se upira smrti. Ta ideja je živa tudi v Baladi o potresu : celo ko se cerkev, v kateri se je zbrala množica s protipotresno pesmijo, v potresu sesuje, iz nje ista pesem odmeva še naprej. Ob izvirnem pogledu na Aškerčevo ustvarjanje bo Komelj svojo pozornost namenil predvsem poznejšemu obdobju njegovega pesnjenja. Le-to je običajno naletelo na nenaklonjeno recepcijo, saj so mu sodobniki večkrat očitali pretirano vztrajanje, da mora producirati vedno nove knjige. Komelj pa tudi v tem delu Aškerčevega opusa prepoznava literarnozgodovinski pomen in vrednost.
Vljudno vas vabimo na svojsko interpretacijo Aškerca in se veselimo srečanja z vami!
