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Obscénnosť v textoch Honzy Krejcarovej

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Zajac P.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

2017

vol. 14

issue 28

15-24

The starting point for this reflection on the poetry by Honza Krejcarová are two proposals by Roman Jakobson about obscenity. According to Jakobson, function is the ‘fundamental and intentional organizer’ of a text and the crucial marker or attribute of its ‘poeticity’. Jakobson demonstrates this on the example of the diaries by Mácha, i.e., autobiographical texts, which for him acquire a poetic function. Their obscenity is acceptable for him not on a cultural-historical, but poetological basis. Jakobson rehabilitates the poetic function of obscenity, but at the same time passes up the opportunity to demonstrate the functional difference between poetry and prose, lyrical and autobiographical genres. This reflection on the function of obscenity in Krejcarová’s poems V zahrádce otce mého (In My Father’s Garden, 1948) and in her letter to Zbyněk Fišer (Egon Bondy) and Julie Nováková (probably from 1962) is based on the double meaning of obscenity as an erotic, bodily function and as the basic existential attribute of an infamous, disreputable and/or insignificant person. Through this doubleness, Honza Krejcarová unexpectedly alludes to obscenity in the work by Božena Němcová. Finally, this reflection looks closely at the poetological difference between Krejcarová’s poetic texts and her letters as examples of the autobiographical genre. In addition, it shows how Krejcarová’s poetry, by turning around the relationship between the metaphor and the metonymy, creates a poetry of total realism.

Smrt v Praze: schizofrenie a sebevražda v éře radostného budování socialismu a „normalizace“

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Vojvodík J.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

2020

vol. 17

issue 35

27-41

As early as 1956, psychiatrist Svetozar Nevole, in a case study on the problem of suicide and its pre vention, stated that suicide in the Czech lands is one of the highest in the world. The occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops (joined by the armies of Warsaw Pact countries), together with the era of so called normalisation that followed, deepened not only the feelings of hopelessness and desperation, but also a phenomenon known as ‘social schizophrenia’ (Tzvetan Todorov). This text follows the ‘schizophrenic symptom’ as part of the politicization of life in Czechoslovakia 1948–1989, both in relation to the concept of ‘normality’ and in works by the poet and clinical psychologist Zbyněk Havlíček. The occupation of August 1968 and period of normalisation that followed struck precisely at the moment of greatest hope, when a sense of confidence in the prolongation of the horizon of our world and renewal of life in it had just seemed to place new possibilities within our grasp. In that atmosphere, and with the knowledge that the occupation of August 1968 would last ‘forever’, suicide was seen by many as the last tragic act of freedom vis à-vis a situation where ‘the walls are closing in’, as Jean Améry wrote in Hand an sich Legen (Reach Out for Yourself), and as the poet Jiří Pištora (1932–1970) wrote in his farewell letter: ‘I stand by the wall, and not one step further.’ A wri ter of nursery rhymes, Pištora was compelled by the occupation to take his own life in September 1970. Psychiatrist Svetozar Nevole, one of the most original figures in Czech psychiatry, committed suicide in September 1965.

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Obscénnosť v textoch Honzy Krejcarovej

Smrt v Praze: schizofrenie a sebevražda v éře radostného budování socialismu a „normalizace“