Young Vladimír Vašek? – A Numeral Analysis Contribution to the Bezruč−Hrzánský Identity Issue
Young Vladimír Vašek? – A Numeral Analysis Contribution to the Bezruč−Hrzánský Identity Issue

Summary/Abstract: The study investigates the possible identity of Vladimír Vašek (= Petr Bezruč), author of Silesian Songs and The Blue Underwing, and Pavel Hrzánský, who authored Poems: Opus no. 5, a book of verse bearing some similarities to the future development of Vašek’s poetic self. The research is carried out via a novel authorship attribution method based on the investigation of numbers and numerals. This new investigation is complemented by the standardly employed MFC and MFW analyses. All the inquiries corroborate that Vašek’s authorship of Hrzánský’s poems is implausible. If the Hrzánský−Bezruč link is to be maintained in literary scholarship, we need to admit an extreme stylistic transformation between the two personae.

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