„Предчувствието за война“ – чешкото литературно многогласие и интелектуално прозрение между 1935 и 1939 г.
“The Premonition of War” – Czech Literary Polyphony and Intellectual Insight between 1935 and 1939
Author(s): Zhorzheta CholakovaSubject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Military history, Political history, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Институт за литература - БАН
Keywords: war as a literary and journalistic topic; the Spanish Civil War; World War II; Czech literature and culture in the 1930s
Summary/Abstract: The book “Inter armа. The Premonition of War in Czech Culture (1935–1939)” contains texts representative of both Czech culture and the dominant attitudes in European cultural space, chronologically framed by the Spanish Civil War and the eve of the Second World War. The compiler of the collection, author of the preface, and translator of most of the texts is Dobromir Grigorov. The selected literary testimonies – journalistic essays, poetry, fiction, and drama – contain important intellectual insights, ideological messages, and pose common contemporary questions about the changing interpretations of concepts such as socialism and democracy, and their divergent interpretations. A significant focus in a number of texts is the clash between the individual right to freedom and justice on the one hand, and collective identity on the other. Some of the authors such as Karel Čapek, Vladislav Vančura, and František Halas are well-known to Bulgarian readers, but others are almost or completely unknown – Gustav Winter, Emanuel Vajtauer, Otokar Fišer, Milena Jesenská.
Journal: Литературна мисъл
- Issue Year: 67/2024
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 115-125
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Bulgarian
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