Pavol Strauss a hrst českých souvislostí
| Title in English | Pavol Strauss and a Handful of Czech Associations |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Pavol Strauss a katolícka moderna |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Pavol Strauss; Slovak and Czech Catholic literature; expressionism; dadaism; poetism; surrealism |
| Description | The author of the present study maps the Czech and Czech-German and international background of Pavol Strauss' creation, especially focuses on thought and poetological streams of modern Czech literature, e. g. poetism, surrealism and expressionism, manifests the contradictority a complementarity of modernism, avantgarde and Catholic impulses in the 20th-century thought and art. He specifically concentrates on the Catholic authors of the 1920s-1940s, such as Jakub Deml, Jaroslav Durych, Jan Zahradníček and others, but also demonstrates the context of the works of the leftish avantgarde, e. g. Vítězslav Nezval, František Halas and others, as well as of the so-called protectorate prose (Egon Hostovský, Jan Čep, Jaroslav Havlíček, Jan Drda, Václav Řezáč and others), Group 42 and neosurrealist postwar currents. The Czech "link" of the work of Pavol Strauss is being formed by a complicated system of connections and lines which integrates the modern Catholic currents and the poetics of modern literature in general in its intrinsic contradictority. |