From Laughter to Forgetting
A Sourcebook of Czech Avant-Garde Discourses
Published on 20. July 2023
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Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-80-246-5308-2 (ISBN)
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A comprehensive reader on the Czech literary avant-garde.
In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-garde has been increased attention to texts and traditions that have long stood in the shadow of the French, German, and British traditions that dominate the canon. Yet this more expansive view of European modernism and the avant-garde has been hindered by the limited range of texts available outside the original languages. This book addresses that problem by offering a wide-ranging selection of literary, theoretical, and documentary sources from one of the most dynamic and original European avant-garde traditions: that of the first Czechoslovak Republic and of the Bohemian lands. The Czech avant-garde is in many respects the ideal "alternative" avant-garde to present in detail to a wider readership: it tracks Central European developments and was often influential internationally while being deeply embedded in particular cultural dynamics that produced original forms. This volume returns interwar Czech avant-garde writings to their place as a firmly embedded component of the European avant-garde.
In recent years a prominent trend in the study of European modernism and the avant-garde has been increased attention to texts and traditions that have long stood in the shadow of the French, German, and British traditions that dominate the canon. Yet this more expansive view of European modernism and the avant-garde has been hindered by the limited range of texts available outside the original languages. This book addresses that problem by offering a wide-ranging selection of literary, theoretical, and documentary sources from one of the most dynamic and original European avant-garde traditions: that of the first Czechoslovak Republic and of the Bohemian lands. The Czech avant-garde is in many respects the ideal "alternative" avant-garde to present in detail to a wider readership: it tracks Central European developments and was often influential internationally while being deeply embedded in particular cultural dynamics that produced original forms. This volume returns interwar Czech avant-garde writings to their place as a firmly embedded component of the European avant-garde.
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English
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Ovocny
Czech Republic
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 238 mm
Width: 166 mm
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978-80-246-5308-2 (9788024653082)
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Persons
Zuzana Rihova is a member of the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences and teaches creative writing at Prague's University of Creative Communication. Her novel Cestou spendliku nebo jehel was shortlisted for the top Czech fiction prize in 2022. Peter Zusi is associate professor in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. Meghan Forbes is a writer and translator with a PhD in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of Michigan. She is the founder of the literary imprint Harlequin Creature. Daniel Morgan is a translator with two decades of experience translating from Czech. Ian Finlay Stone is a translator who has worked for various agencies and government bureaus.
Content
1. The Laughter of the Avant-Garde (1918-1929): Proletarian Art, Poetism, Constructivism
Section Introduction
Capek, Karel: "Kritika slov"
Capek, Josef: Nejskromnejsi umeni [extracts]
Weiner, Richard: Trasnicky dejinnych dnu [extracts]
Salda, F. X.: "O upadku literatury-i mnohych veci jinych... "
Hora, Josef: "K novemu umeni"
U. S. Devetsil
Neumann, Stanislav K.: "Devetsil"
Teige, Karel: "Novym smerem"
Teige, Karel: "Obrazy a predobrazy"
Capek, Karel: "Poznamka k stati Karla Teiga 'Obrazy a predobrazy'"
Capek, Karel: "Proc nejsem komunistou"
Teige, Karel: "S novou generaci"
Vancura, Vladislav: "Rad nove tvorby"
Goetz, Frantisek: "O Hosta a o ty, kteri stoji za nim"
Teige, Karel: "O expresionismu"
Goetz, Frantisek: "Trochu polemiky, trochu vyznani"
Wolker, Jiri: "Proletarske umeni"
Literarni skupina: "Nase nadeje, vira a prace"
Sima, Josef: "Reklama"
Schulz, Karel: "Poetika"
Styrsky, Jindrich: "Obraz"
Teige, Karel: "Foto Kino Film"
Teige, Karel: "Poetismus"
Nezval, Vitezslav: "Papousek na motocyklu cili o remesle basnickem"
Cernik - Halas - Vaclavek: "Dosti Wolkera!"
Nezval, Vitezslav: "Film"
Teige, Karel: "Poezie pro pet smyslu"
Teige, Karel: "Dada"
Teige, Karel: "Vudce ceske moderny"
Teige, Karel: "K teorii konstruktivismu"
Kupka, Frantisek: "Tvoreni v umeni vytvarnem"
Rykr, Zdenek: Teigism
Teige, Karel: "Slova, slova, slova"
Styrsky, Jindrich a Toyen: "Popularni uvedeni do artificielismu"
Voskovec, Jiri: "Zelva, o ktere se nikdo nezminuje"
Obrtel, Vit: "Harmonie"
Nezval, Vitezslav: "Navesti o poetismu"
Nezval, Vitezslav: "Kapka inkoustu"
Teige, Karel: "Ultrafialove obrazy cili artificielismus"
Teige, Karel: "Manifest poetismu"
Klima, Ladislav: Vterina a Vecnost [extracts]
2. A Generation Splits: Avant-Garde in Crisis (1929-1932)
Section Introduction
Styrsky, Jindrich: "Koutek generace I"
Styrsky, Jindrich: "Mala prolegomena"
Vaclavek, Bedrich: "O marxistickou teorii umeni"
Stoll, Ladislav: "Lide v ' laboratori'"
Vaclavek, Bedrich: "Konec 'revolucni' avantgardy"
Obrtel, Vit: "O stavbe vezi"
Brouk, Bohuslav: "Na obranu individualismu"
Obrtel, Vit: "Pravo na teorii"
Navratil, Vaclav: "Kvart"
Jakobson, Roman: "O dnesnim brusicstvi ceskem" [extracts]
Capek, Josef: "Krize charakteru"
3. Complicating the Real (1933-1938): Surrealism and Prague School Polyfunctionalism
Section Introduction
Teige, Karel: "Basen, svet, clovek"
Teige, Karel: "Deset let surrealismu" [extracts]
Teige, Karel: "Socialisticky Realismus a surrealismu" [extracts]
Weiner, Richard: Lazebnik (Poetika)
Styrsky, Jindrich: "Surrealisticke malirstvi (nekolik poznamek)"
Styrsky, Jindrich: " Surrealisticka fotografie"
Styrsky, Jindrich and Vitezslav Nezval: "Pokus o poznani iracionality fotografie"
Styrsky, Jindrich et al: "Pokus o poznani iracionality plniciho pera"
Toyen: TBC
Nezval, Vitezslav: "K ceskemu surrealismu"
Mukarovsky, Jan: "Misto esteticke funkce mezi ostatnimi"
Mukarovsky, Jan: "Individuum v umeni"
Mukarovsky, Jan: "Dialekticke rozpory moderniho umeni"
Mukarovsky, Jan: "Francouzska poezie Karla Capka"
Ladislav Novomesky: "Cesko-slovensky kulturni vztah"
Kalandra, Zavis: "Nadskutecno v Surrealismu"
Kalandra, Zavis: "Cin Andre Bretona"
Kalandra, Zavis: "Princip slasti a princip reality v umeni"
Chalupecky, Jindrich: "Slovo o situaci nadrealismu u nas"
Brouk, Bohuslav: "Machuv kult"
Cerny, Vaclav: "Surrealismus proti proudu"
4. Deaths of the Avant-garde (1938-1942): The Myth of Everydayness
Section Introduction
Navratil, Vaclav: "K novemu mytu"
Navratil, Vaclav: "O krizi krizeologie"
Navratil, Vaclav: "O smutku, lasce a jinych vecech"
Rykr, Zdenek: "K nasemu modernimu umeni"
Souckova, Milada: "K novemu romanu"
Chalupecky, Jindrich: "Smysl moderniho umeni"
Chalupecky, Jindrich: "Svet, v nemz zijeme"
Chalupecky, Jindrich: "Umeni napodobi skutecnost"
Kolar, Jiri: Novy don Quijote [extracts]
Section Introduction
Capek, Karel: "Kritika slov"
Capek, Josef: Nejskromnejsi umeni [extracts]
Weiner, Richard: Trasnicky dejinnych dnu [extracts]
Salda, F. X.: "O upadku literatury-i mnohych veci jinych... "
Hora, Josef: "K novemu umeni"
U. S. Devetsil
Neumann, Stanislav K.: "Devetsil"
Teige, Karel: "Novym smerem"
Teige, Karel: "Obrazy a predobrazy"
Capek, Karel: "Poznamka k stati Karla Teiga 'Obrazy a predobrazy'"
Capek, Karel: "Proc nejsem komunistou"
Teige, Karel: "S novou generaci"
Vancura, Vladislav: "Rad nove tvorby"
Goetz, Frantisek: "O Hosta a o ty, kteri stoji za nim"
Teige, Karel: "O expresionismu"
Goetz, Frantisek: "Trochu polemiky, trochu vyznani"
Wolker, Jiri: "Proletarske umeni"
Literarni skupina: "Nase nadeje, vira a prace"
Sima, Josef: "Reklama"
Schulz, Karel: "Poetika"
Styrsky, Jindrich: "Obraz"
Teige, Karel: "Foto Kino Film"
Teige, Karel: "Poetismus"
Nezval, Vitezslav: "Papousek na motocyklu cili o remesle basnickem"
Cernik - Halas - Vaclavek: "Dosti Wolkera!"
Nezval, Vitezslav: "Film"
Teige, Karel: "Poezie pro pet smyslu"
Teige, Karel: "Dada"
Teige, Karel: "Vudce ceske moderny"
Teige, Karel: "K teorii konstruktivismu"
Kupka, Frantisek: "Tvoreni v umeni vytvarnem"
Rykr, Zdenek: Teigism
Teige, Karel: "Slova, slova, slova"
Styrsky, Jindrich a Toyen: "Popularni uvedeni do artificielismu"
Voskovec, Jiri: "Zelva, o ktere se nikdo nezminuje"
Obrtel, Vit: "Harmonie"
Nezval, Vitezslav: "Navesti o poetismu"
Nezval, Vitezslav: "Kapka inkoustu"
Teige, Karel: "Ultrafialove obrazy cili artificielismus"
Teige, Karel: "Manifest poetismu"
Klima, Ladislav: Vterina a Vecnost [extracts]
2. A Generation Splits: Avant-Garde in Crisis (1929-1932)
Section Introduction
Styrsky, Jindrich: "Koutek generace I"
Styrsky, Jindrich: "Mala prolegomena"
Vaclavek, Bedrich: "O marxistickou teorii umeni"
Stoll, Ladislav: "Lide v ' laboratori'"
Vaclavek, Bedrich: "Konec 'revolucni' avantgardy"
Obrtel, Vit: "O stavbe vezi"
Brouk, Bohuslav: "Na obranu individualismu"
Obrtel, Vit: "Pravo na teorii"
Navratil, Vaclav: "Kvart"
Jakobson, Roman: "O dnesnim brusicstvi ceskem" [extracts]
Capek, Josef: "Krize charakteru"
3. Complicating the Real (1933-1938): Surrealism and Prague School Polyfunctionalism
Section Introduction
Teige, Karel: "Basen, svet, clovek"
Teige, Karel: "Deset let surrealismu" [extracts]
Teige, Karel: "Socialisticky Realismus a surrealismu" [extracts]
Weiner, Richard: Lazebnik (Poetika)
Styrsky, Jindrich: "Surrealisticke malirstvi (nekolik poznamek)"
Styrsky, Jindrich: " Surrealisticka fotografie"
Styrsky, Jindrich and Vitezslav Nezval: "Pokus o poznani iracionality fotografie"
Styrsky, Jindrich et al: "Pokus o poznani iracionality plniciho pera"
Toyen: TBC
Nezval, Vitezslav: "K ceskemu surrealismu"
Mukarovsky, Jan: "Misto esteticke funkce mezi ostatnimi"
Mukarovsky, Jan: "Individuum v umeni"
Mukarovsky, Jan: "Dialekticke rozpory moderniho umeni"
Mukarovsky, Jan: "Francouzska poezie Karla Capka"
Ladislav Novomesky: "Cesko-slovensky kulturni vztah"
Kalandra, Zavis: "Nadskutecno v Surrealismu"
Kalandra, Zavis: "Cin Andre Bretona"
Kalandra, Zavis: "Princip slasti a princip reality v umeni"
Chalupecky, Jindrich: "Slovo o situaci nadrealismu u nas"
Brouk, Bohuslav: "Machuv kult"
Cerny, Vaclav: "Surrealismus proti proudu"
4. Deaths of the Avant-garde (1938-1942): The Myth of Everydayness
Section Introduction
Navratil, Vaclav: "K novemu mytu"
Navratil, Vaclav: "O krizi krizeologie"
Navratil, Vaclav: "O smutku, lasce a jinych vecech"
Rykr, Zdenek: "K nasemu modernimu umeni"
Souckova, Milada: "K novemu romanu"
Chalupecky, Jindrich: "Smysl moderniho umeni"
Chalupecky, Jindrich: "Svet, v nemz zijeme"
Chalupecky, Jindrich: "Umeni napodobi skutecnost"
Kolar, Jiri: Novy don Quijote [extracts]