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Jan Palach w czeskiej poezji

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Kulmiński R.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2017

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issue 7(10)

243-256

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The article tackles the analysis of lyrical pieces dedicated to Jan Palach. From the extensive material, including inter alia Kazimierz Wierzyński’s poem Na śmierć Jana Palacha w Pradze broadcasted by the radio station of Radio Free Europe, or the piece written by a popular Bulgarian poet, Valery Petrov, entitled Self-immolation, I have selected only those works which were created in Czechoslovakia right after Jan Palach had committed self-immolation. The primary reason for such a selection is that they were composed shortly after Palach’s act and were written by Czech and Slovakian poets emotionally committed to the dramatic political suicide of a young Prague student and experienced the events of January 1969 directly. As a consequence, the following works remain in my interest: Miroslav Holub’s Praha Jana Palacha and Josef Kainar’s Bolest at’ mi poví, published in a weekly magazine of the Association of Czechoslovakian Writers “Letters” on 23rd January 1969, Jan Skácel’s Hořící keř, as well as the poem by Pavol Horov Malé rekviem za Jana Palacha a iných, both published in “Letters” on 6th and 13th February accordingly, and the poem written on 30th January 1969 by Jan Zábrana entitled První (Noc v Tatrách). The aspects I am mainly interested in in the works referred to above are the manners of articulating the heroization of Jan Palach and his act. Indeed, these poems constitute a part of heroic discourse, they create heroic narration and present the self-immolated person in a blaze of glory as an indisputable hero

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An Ordinary Man, a National Hero, a Polish Palach? Some Thoughts on the Memorialization of Ryszard Siwiec in the Czech-Polish Context

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Stach S.

Acta Poloniae Historica

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2016

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vol. 113

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On 8 September 1968, Ryszard Siwiec set fi re to himself during a harvest festival in the 10th Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw. Through his self-immolation, he sought to protest against Communist rule in general and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in particular. However, his death did not gain wider attention. Further protests ‘by fi re’ took place in the subsequent months and years in East Central Europe. Among them was the self-immolation by the Czech student Jan Palach in Prague. In contrast to Siwiec, this young man was immediately recognized as a martyr in Czechoslovakia as well as on the other side of the Iron Curtain. It was only after 1989 that Ryszard Siwiec’s story became increasingly well-known. Today, his act still remains in the shadow of Palach’s, however. This article deals with the marginal position of Siwiec in the Polish national pantheon. By reflecting on the various constraints on creating martyrs in state and post-socialism, it focuses on one particular aspect of Polish and Czech – or rather Polish-Czech – memory politics. As for the ‘Polish Palach’ Ryszard Siwiec, the paper demonstrates that Czechs have played a crucial role in popularizing him.

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Jan Palach Square - urbanonym as a symbol of public protest

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Ptáčníková M.

Acta onomastica

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2019

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vol. 60

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issue 1

85-93

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This article is concerned with a specific example of a public place being spontaneously renamed, a seemingly one-of-a-kind example in the history of Prague public place naming. In early 1969, the urban toponymy of Prague experienced a moment the citizens took an active part in creating a name for a public space. Individuals as well as groups put forth effort with the objective to ensure the set of Prague place names included Jan Palach, who had sacrificed his life in protest against the occupation of former Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces in 1968. This article seeks to analyze archived documents (preserved requests, petitions, and municipal authorities meeting minutes) based on which the incentives and the argumentation used in the requests as well as the reactions from the municipal authorities are described.

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Článek se zabývá jedním konkrétním dokladem fenoménu spontánního přejmenování městského prostoru, a to dokladem, který nemá v dějinách pojmenovávání pražských veřejných míst obdoby. V první polovině roku 1969 zažila pražská urbanonymie moment aktivní účasti obyvatel města při vzniku názvu veřejného prostranství, když se do ní obyvatelé (jednotlivci i celé skupiny) pokoušeli prosadit jméno studenta Jana Palacha, jenž obětoval svůj život na protest proti potlačování svobod a pasivnímu přístupu veřejnosti po okupaci Československa armádami států Varšavské smlouvy v roce 1968. Tento příspěvek analyzuje archivní materiály (dochované žádosti a petice i zápisy z jednání městských orgánů), na jejichž základě sleduje argumentaci použitou v návrzích a na druhé straně pak reakci městské samosprávy.

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Jan Palach w czeskiej poezji

An Ordinary Man, a National Hero, a Polish Palach? Some Thoughts on the Memorialization of Ryszard Siwiec in the Czech-Polish Context

Jan Palach Square - urbanonym as a symbol of public protest