Confiteor - konec romantismu

• Authors: Kostrbova L.

Title variants

EN

MACHAR'S 'CONFITEOR'. THE END OF ROMANTICISM

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article is concerned with 'Confiteor' (1887), the first collection of verse by Josef Svatopluk Machar (1864-1942). It places him in the concerns of 1890s literature and analyzes the nature of the persona and irony, both of which are unique in the Czech verse of his day. Machar's approach to the Romantic is ambivalent. On the one hand he exhibits the Romantic tradition; on the other, the Romantic is absent or consistently ironized. This approach is linked with his fear of metaphysical questions and his evident questioning of the status of poetry merely on a sociological level. The authoress' interpretation constitutes a return to assessing the aesthetic value of the literary text; at the same time it considers the problem of Machar as founder of Czech Modernism. In so doing, she looks at continuities between Romanticism and Modernism.

Keywords

EN

CZECH POETRY; MACHAR JOSEF SVATOPLUK; MACHAR'S CONFITEOR

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 629-649
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kostrbova L.

• L. Kostrbova, Ceska literatura, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA03997886