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Early Poetry of Egon Bondy and Ivo Vodseďálek
ŠIMÍČEK, Andrej
The bachelor thesis deals with the early poetry of two Czech nonconformist writers, Egon Bondy and Ivo Vodseďálek, which was written at the turn of the 40s and 50s of the 20th century. The source material of this work are collection of poems written between the year 1947 and the year 1953. During that period, the poetry of both of these writers gradually progresses from surrealism to their own artistic approaches - the methods of "total realism" and "awkward poetry". The aim of this work is to analyse the progress, compare the methods and notice the parallels. Besides that, the work will examine some particular moments of their life and their position of artists in Czechoslovakia at that time.
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"Jesus Kind" Egon Bondy as Bohumil Hrabal's inspiration
Marek, Jakub ; Schmarc, Vít (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with Egon Bondy's influence upon Bohumil Hrabal. First of all it sketches their relationship which was very friendly and which took place mainly in the fifties of the twentieth century. In the next section there is presented in two ways the influence of Egon Bondy on Bohumil Hrabal's literary works. As the first way is intended the influence of Bondy's concept of total realism upon Hrabal's early texts (see especially the story Jarmilka, also e.g. the story Blitzkrieg or the text collage Mrtvomat), the second way shows how was Egon Bondy used as a literary figure by Hrabal (e.g. the story Zamilovaná or prose Něžný barbar). The first point of interest is therefore origination and evolution of mythology of Bondy how it was processed by Hrabal in his proses and poems. Concurrently, this thesis tries to refer to works of other authors in which the Bondy's figure also occurs and then compare it with Hrabal's texts. In next part this thesis deals with Hrabal's inspiration coming from Bondy's poetic method of total realism which served him as a proper way of depiction of "estranged" reality of the fifties.
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Totalitariankitsch and underground. The semiotic model.
Kubíček, Jan ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
As a consequence of a process of semiotic totalization of public life in totalitarian societies, a system of social, esthetic, ethic and language norms becomes radically altered. This system is partially described in Totalitarian kitsch section, in chapters called Totality, Kitsch, Art, Language, Esthetics and Myth. In a passage called Underground, totalitarian realism and Egon Bondy's and Ivan Vodseďálek's gauche poetry is interpreted as a model reply on totalitarian society conditions. A concept of total poetry is introduced. We ask a question: what actually total poetry is, if not an art? Eleven answers are being sequentially found: 1. it is a complex of apocryphal texts of socialistic realism, 2. it is a game about art, 3. it is culture at the phase of being born, 4. a method of phenomenological reduction, 5. a language game, 6. de-construction of myth, 7. occupation of game position within totalitarian society, 8. a myth, 9. a semiotic clearance process carried out through semiotic rage, 10. symbolization of reality and realization of symbol, 11. call for a game. In the end, we try to define total poetry in relationship to avant-garde, modern art and postmodernism. Three points have been discussed in a chapter called Kitsch and underground: 1. recapitulation of acceptation of Egon Bondy's and...
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Socialist realism and so called total realism: main characteristics of poetics, similarities and differences
Sieberová, Jana ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Schmarc, Vít (referee)
This diploma thesis mainly deals with the relationships between the poetic manifestations of socialist realism and so called total realism in the early fifties. The first part focuses on general issues; within it I try to describe characteristic features of both poetics, for total realism it is done mostly in the background of comparison with like-minded concepts (Hrabal's poems from the fifties, the works of former members of Group 42). In other chapters of the text I am thinking about a total realism from two aspects: first, as an alternative form of realism, which defines itself against the official art, as well as a program that is dependent on the official art to some extent by paraphrasing or using some of its means and resources.
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