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Poetry Writing as a “Meeting” with the Czech Past and Present. The Exile Poetry of Ivan Diviš‘s Departure from Bohemia
Flanderka, Jakub
The Exile Poetry of Ivan Diviš‘s Departure from Bohemia deals with Ivan Diviš’s poetic work Odchod z Čech (Departure from Bohemia), which is composed as a stylized “meeting” of a poetic subject with the external world. This “meeting” revolves especially around the themes of emigration and living in exile, and the situation in Czechoslovakia during the period of “normalisation”, which was a particularly strong one for the author, as well as the contemplation of the poet’s subject over his relationship to the motherland. Diviš’s leaving Czechoslovakia was the resolution of an arduous moment in his life, when – as an individual – he came into a clash with momentous historical events (and not for the first time). As such, this became an opportunity for him to reconsider the theme of Czech national identity and milestones of Czech history through his poetry.
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Two Modes of Attentiveness: Toyen
Koblížek, Tomáš
The essay deals with Teraza Bredečková's screenplay for the film Toyen which was directed in 2005 by Jan Němec.The screenplay presents an image of artist's sensibility which can be observed in two interweaving thematic lines: as the sensibility to the world of senses and as the "ethical" sensibility. The author of the essay also focuses on the fact that these motives can be observed only if we ignore the narrative form of the text.
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From the other side of the Atlantic: Witold Gombrowicz in Argentina and his dialogue with the (Polish) culture
Kanda, Roman
For the literary work of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), distinct thematical-motivic coherence and compactness of thinking is characteristic. A conflict between creative individuality (creative „self “) and limiting form of culture (cultural „us“) is among the lines that permeate all his work, and especially his Diaries (written between 1953 and 1967, or rather 1969) most visibly. Gombrowicz’s radical anti-culturalism, accompanied with numerous scandals and provocations, must be seen as a consistent defence of his creative freedom, his subjectivity. Nevertheless, it also represents an alternative view of culture, revealing its so far hidden aspects (immatureness, clownish laughter, youth) as distinctive values.
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