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Martyrs of Silence
Čiháková, Barbora
This contribution builds on Jan lopatka’s thesis that there is a connection between Jakub Deml and Jan Hanč. It describes various resonances between the respective poetics of the two authors and also reflects on their differing approaches and assumptions, which to some extent can be traced back to differences in historical context. In conclusion the study points out that the authors’ respective works are essentially guided by the same principle of composition, namely the idea of being engaged in writing a single, continuous and unified book.
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The Genesis of Texts by Tasov Children on the Motifs from DemlʼsMy Friends
Čiháková, Barbora ; Fleglová, J.
The authors describe the genesis of following poetic texts created by pupils of the Primary School in Tasov in response to motifs from Deml’s My Friends. These texts were written during the Flowers of Tasov workshop which took place before the Deml conference and was organized for the Tasov children by the Dobrá Čeština association together with the NGO Slepíši in Tasov and students of the College of Creative Communication (VŠKK) in Prague.
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Zdeněk Rotrekl and Jakub Deml: Nature, Soul and Spirit
Zizler, Jiří
The study considers Jakub Deml’s relationship to land and landscape as spiritual phenomena and parts of the divine order that demands both co-existence and co-operation. It also points out the contradictions inherent in the image of nature in Zdeněk Rotrekl’s work, which is seen here as a unique complement to Deml’s ecstatic vision.
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Two Sources on Jakub Deml’s relationship with T. G. Masaryk
Podaná, Barbora
The contribution describes two sources that can deepen our understanding of the relationship between Jakub Deml and T. G. Masaryk. The first consists of an official file on the legal prosecution of Jakub Deml located in the archive of the President’s Office: the file contains not just court documents from the 1930 court trial of Jakub Deml but also the President’s approval of the prosecution, a transcript of a phone call by Karel Čapek, a further testimony on Březina’s remarks, a ministry of Justice application for presidential pardon and other documents underlying the President’s change of mind and his ultimate decision to stop the prosecution. The second source of information comprises nine books by Deml (which contain seven handwritten dedications to Masaryk from the years 1927–1935) and a single book dedicated to President Edvard Beneš in 1938. These sources are to be found in the as yet uncatalogued depositions in the library of T. G. Masaryk.
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Jakub Deml as Remembered by Josef Jelen
Burget, Eduard
In 1998 the Catholic priest, poet and journalist Josef Jelen published his memoir Jeden z prokletých (One of the Damned) in an attempt to justify his position and views in the years of the so-called normalization. In the memoir Jelen tends to emphasize his friendships with a number of influential writers: the most important of them would have been Jakub Deml whom Jelen continued to visit in Tasov into the 1950s. at the beginning of the 1960s Jelen resigned from the priesthood and shortly afterwards became a secret collaborator of the Communist State Security.
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Poslední Šlépěje by Jakub Deml, or Deml in Samizdat
Loučová, Petra
This study introduces the so far unknown samizdat selection of Deml‘s poems entitled Poslední Šlépěje (The Last Footprints, 1982), put together and published by Josef Veselý and Bohumil Macháček in the South Bohemian JITROcel samizdat edition of Jiří Dinda. This volume represents the first edition of Deml‘s late versified social commentaries and its challenges the established literary-historical view of Deml‘s last satirical poems which until now have been known from Jiří Kuběna‘s arrangement. The second and more extensive part of the study reviews the history of publication of Deml’s works as well as the research on Deml carried out in Czechoslovakia in the years 1948–1989, focussing primarily on semi-official publications and samizdat editions, including journal articles and papers published in proceedings.
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Translations of Jakub Deml's works into Polish
Gnot, Anna
The study deals with the translation of works by Jakub Deml into Polish from the 1920s to the present. The author maps the publication of individual texts in both the official and samizdat publication. Part of the study is reflection on role of Jindřich Chalupecký's essay “Jakub Deml” at the Polish reception of Deml's work.
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The One Book of Jakub Deml, Bedřich Fučík and Vladimír Binar
Iwashita, Daniela
This contribution reviews, and reflects on, the idea of a single, unified book and other metaphors of holistic work (the work as a tree, the Tasov landscape, the Oslava river) which constantly recur in Deml’s writings: what can they mean for the reader and the editors of his work today? The contributor focuses on a solution worked out and justified by Bedřich Fučík and Vladimír Binar in the samizdat edition of The Work of Jakub Deml (13 volumes, VBF Manuscripts, Prague 1978–1983) and in the accompanying Report on the Compilation of the Work of Jakub Deml (VBF Manuscripts, Prague 1981). The contributor reviews the well-known shortcomings of The Work, especially its reduction of a number of texts, but notes with approval its organizing principles which correspond to Deml’s own approach to writing and publication: such as the pursuit of cyclical chronology; the recognition of the central, recurrent books; the organization of individual volumes along generic lines; the readerly and artistic character of the books. The contribution goes on to identify the editorial measures and procedures established by The Work editors which are equally valid for us today: such as the need for detailed mapping of Deml’s editorial and publishing practices; the need to respect and privilege the author’s will; the need for compilation and publication of all bibliography (including contributions to journals and magazines); the need for the widest possible research into extant manuscripts and correspondence (today this applies above all to the ordering and detailed description of a part of Deml’s writings deposited in the Literary Archive of The Museum of Czech Literature in Prague, which comprises thousands of mixed-up pages from manuscripts of various books, including Forgotten Light); further, the need for mapping Deml’s publishing notices and leaflets; the publication of a detailed schedule of all his writings, and, last but not least, the willingness to accept external review and criticism. In conclusion the contributor proposes a solution for the future: the publication of a hybrid edition which would consist of an electronic critical edition (including an archive of all extant versions together with instruments for their comparison) in parallel with a readerly publication of Deml’s work in book format which would be based on texts in the critical edition and organized roughly in accordance with the principles and overall conception of Fučík’s and Binar’s samizdat Work, even if significantly extended.
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