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This article addresses the last creative period of the poet Konstantin Biebl (1898–1951) in the late 1940s and early 1950s and explores in a broader cultural-political context, taking into consideration the poet’s specific character, the genesis of his last collection of poems entitled Bez obav [Unafraid] (1951) as well as the unexplained circumstances of his tragic death. Biebl was one of the leading representatives of the leftist art avant-garde in interwar Czechoslovakia. In the early 1940s he stopped writing. After the Communist coup in 1948 he tried to adjust to the period’s ideological-aesthetic norms applied to the new literature in the spirit of the socialist realism as reflected in the above-mentioned collection. The text focuses on the events taking place after its publication, which culminated with the poet’s suicide in November 1951. The author presents these events and the relationships between the actors in the light of previously unpublished documents from the archive collection of the poet, translator and cultural official, Jiří Taufer (1911–1986), who was one of the key figures of the cultural policy of the period and the conflicts related to it. The author sees the main value of these documents as being the focus on František Nečásek (1913–1968), the head of the culture and press department of the Office of the President of the Republic and the holder of a number of other posts, whose role in these events – possibly a very important one – has so far been somewhat overlooked. The study includes an annotated edition of texts from the period in question and the subsequent period, mostly of a personal character and unpublished, which illustrate the context of the interpreted events. The article concludes with a summary interpretation of these documents.
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Příspěvek se zabývá posledním tvůrčím obdobím básníka Konstantina Biebla (1898–1951) na přelomu čtyřicátých a padesátých let minulého století a zkoumá v širších kulturněpolitických souvislostech – a také s ohledem na básníkův specifický charakter – genezi jeho poslední sbírky Bez obav (1951) i okolnosti jeho tragické a dosud nevyjasněné smrti. Biebl patřil k předním tvůrcům levicové umělecké avantgardy v meziválečném Československu, od začátku čtyřicátých let se jako básník odmlčel a po komunistickém převratu v roce 1948 se snažil vyhovět dobové ideologicko-estetické normě uplatňované na novou literaturu v duchu socialistického realismu, jak to odráží právě uvedená sbírka. V centru zájmu tohoto textu jsou zejména události, které se seběhly po jejím vydání a které vyvrcholily básníkovou sebevraždou v listopadu 1951. Autorka tyto události a vzájemné vztahy aktérů představuje ve světle dosud nepublikovaných dokumentů z archivního fondu básníka, překladatele a kulturního činitele Jiřího Taufera (1911–1986), jedné z klíčových postav tehdejší kulturní politiky a konfliktů, které se v ní odehrávaly. Jejich hlavní přínos spatřuje autorka v zaostření pozornosti na Františka Nečáska (1913–1968), přednostu kulturního a tiskového odboru Kanceláře prezidenta republiky a nositele řady dalších funkcí, jehož úloha v tomto dění – možná velmi důležitá – byla dosud spíše opomíjena. Samotnou studii doplňuje komentovaná edice dobových i pozdějších textů, většinou osobní povahy a dosud nepublikovaných, s názvem „Dokumentární souvislosti případu Konstantina Biebla (1940–1988)“, která dokresluje širší kontext popisovaných událostí. Souhrnnou interpretací těchto dokumentů se také uzavírá tato studie.
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Drawing its methodological inspiration from A History of New Modernism. Czech Literature, 1905–1923 (2010), this study aims to present the development of Czech literature over the course of a single year: 1929. The objective, however, is not to portray the literary events and literary production of this year in the manner of a chronicle, nor in their entirety, but to capture certain ‘nodal’ characteristics of the imagination and literary language. There is one event that allows the author to take this approach — i.e. to identify themes, images and figures that are typical of the artistic discourse of the period —, namely the publication of Richard Weiner’s The Barber-Surgeon. The themes, motives, and figures found in this text (dream and dream writing, language, failure, literary polemics) constitute a point of departure for grasping the dominant features of a literary period which is otherwise rather amorphous. By virtue of Weiner’s poetics, a thread of sense begins to emerge, and eventually the ‘story’ or ‘drama’ of 1929, out of the re-constructed configurations and correlations of several different literary texts. Through its ‘otherness’, Weiner’s ‘dream poetics’ separated itself from the universalizing aesthetic concept of its time, thus falling ‘out of the picture’ from the perspective of literary history. By contrast, the author considers it as the central feature of a network of relations among a number of texts published in 1929: the short story AM from Jakub Deml’s collection My Purgatory; the poem The New Icarus by Konstantin Biebl; Karel Čapek’s Tales from Two Pockets; Jaroslav Durych’s essay on Poetics; and Vladislav Vančura’s novel The Last Judgement. The themes and figures under consideration here — poetics, dreams, dream writing and literary polemics — are all related to the writer’s self-consciousness in the creative process and the attention paid by the writer to material elements of the work. This manifests itself as an interest in the question of poetics and in a vivid ‘linguistic awareness’, which is also manifested in the widespread interest in questions of language and the culture of language that Czech linguists, especially those associated with the Prague Linguistic Circle, studied in accordance with — and in dialogue with — contemporary trends in modern art.
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