Kritik uprostřed "rozvalin a trosek" : počátky kritické činnosti Františka Götze
Critic amid "ruins and debris" : the beginnings of František Götz's critical activity

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the early years of the critical activity of a prominent Czech literary critic František Götz (1894–1974), in particular his contributions to the journals Lípa, Socialistická budoucnost and Host in the years 1918–1922. The study examines the relationship between Götz's writing and that of F. X. Šalda, prewar modernists, and young avant-garde authors. The polemics surrounding Expressionism in 1922 are also discussed, as is the composition of Götz's first book of critical essays, Anarchie v nejmladší české poezii ("Anarchy in the youngest Czech poetry", 1922). The article demonstrates that Götz was a critic who was responsive to the transformations of critical discourse that occurred at the turn of the 1910s and 1920s. He clearly demonstrates his capacity to assimilate new concepts and reinterpret them in a way that aligns with his understanding of the organic literary form, a notion that is at odds with the avant-garde's inclination towards radical innovation.

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