Versions of the poem Seven Years On the transformation of Kolář’s poetry in the early Forties Cover Image

Varianty básně Sedm let K proměně Kolářovy poetiky na počátku čtyřicátých let
Versions of the poem Seven Years On the transformation of Kolář’s poetry in the early Forties

Author(s): Jakub Říha
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Památník národního písemnictví
Keywords: early texts; versions of poems; Surrealist poetry; programme-based articles; semantic interpretation; genesis of poetry

Summary/Abstract: The article compares two variants of the poem Sedm let (“Seven Years”). The first variant is a part of the manuscript composition Nový Don Quijote (“The New Don Quixote”), which most likely originated between 1936 and 1938. The other variant was published in the magazine Život na jaře (“Life in Spring”), edited by the Umělecká beseda, in Spring 1942. The article aims for a detailed description of both variants and, following their comparison, the characterization of transformations in Jiří Kolář´s poetics that occurred in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 237-245
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech