Otázky rukopisu Máchova Máje : k chystané kritické edici básně

• Authors: Michal Charypar

Title variants

EN

Questions surrounding the manuscript of Mácha’s May : The forthcoming critical edition of the poem

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study deals with one of the key topics relating to the forthcoming critical edition of Mácha’s Máj in the Kritická hybridní edice (KHE, Critical Hybrid Series) library, i.e. issues surrounding the only preserved manuscript of Mácha’s poem. It not only provides an analysis of this manuscript, which was discovered eighty years after the poet’s death and has not yet been appropriately examined, but also compares it with other surviving sources of Máj — particularly the first printed edition from 1836, while attempting to determine its textological status. The forthcoming edition has helped to refute the hypothesis that the manuscript was meant for the censor. The overall character of the manuscript and an analysis of its linguistic and graphic divergences and similarities with the printed version indicate that the manscript was most probably not written until after the printed edition of the poem was published (in April 1836), most likely as a transcript of it made by the poet himself, who died that same year (in November 1836). Mácha’s personal papers also include a similar manuscript — a fragment of a diary from 1835 (R57), which was created by an identical recording technique, clearly from the same batch of paper as the manuscript of Máj, thus evidently playing a similar role. However, this study does not focus on the final published version, which will be the task of the proposed publication.

Keywords

CS

textologie; česká romantická poezie; 19. století; Mácha Karel Hynek; kritická hybridní edice; rukopis

EN

textual criticism; Czech romantic poetry; 19th century; Mácha Karel Hynek; critical hybrid edition; manuscript

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 540-564
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michal Charypar

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic