Býti ismuistou!
Being an ismist!

Vladimír Macura's poetic juvenilia

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with Vladimír Macura, who went down in the history of Czechliterature as a literary scholar and prose writer, i.e. primarily as the author of thebook monograph Znamení zrodu (Signs of Birth), which fundamentally transformedCzech perceptions of the National Revival, and as the creator of a number of proseworks, particularly the tetralogy of historical novels Ten, který bude (He Who Will Be).However, material housed at the Museum of Czech Literature shows that Macura wasliterarily active from his early childhood and became involved in Czech literature fromthe time of his secondary school studies in Ostrava, not only as a talented poet, butalso as the co‑founderof a completely original artistic school called Ismism. Hence theaim of this study is to document his early work from the first half of the 1960s and toindicate just where Macura is already „himself “ at that time and also which featuresin his later literary activities are rooted in his human and psychological disposition,which does not fundamentally change.

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