Básně Jana Kameníka – poezie, nebo mystika?
Jan Kameník’s poems – poetry or mystique?

Summary/Abstract: Jan Kameník’s (Ludmila Macešková’s) poems are read either as literary texts or as authentic mystic notes. The first part of the article focuses on the discussion about the relation of poetry and mystique in Macešková’s texts and on the reception of her masculine pseudonym. I consider the two different ways of reading Kameník’s poetry to be the result of the multifunctional nature of every literary work. In the case of Kameník’s books of poetry, I regard the “literary” approach as more adequate because they contain specific signals of “literariness” – published by author in a certain publishing house, in a certain edition, etc. (Kameník’s diaries are a different case). In the second part of the article, an analysis of textual speaker in Kamenik’s poetry is presented. Kameník’s textual speaker has specific features realized by grammatical and semantic categories, e.g. passive sentential perspective. The masculin gender, which is “symptomless” in Czech as opposed to feminine and neutral, corresponds with the specific “mystic” image of the speaker – a subject stroken and transformed by external power.

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