Kniha: Poetry in Exile Czech poets during the Cold War and the Westernpoetic tradition – Josef Hrdlička

In his book Josef Hrdlička opens the question of what exactly constitutes Exile Poetry,

and indeed whether it amounts to a category as fundamental as Romantic or Bucolic

lyricism. He covers the intricately complex and diverse topic of exile by exploring

selected literary texts from antiquity to the present, giving due attention to writers that

have influenced the exile discourse; from Ovid, Goethe and Baudelaire to the thinkers

and poets of the 20th century like Adorno or Saint-John Perse. Against this backdrop of

exile poetics, he turns his attention to Czech poets who left their homeland after the

Communist Coup of 1948 and were notable contributors to Czech literature abroad.

Hrdlička considers the works of Ivan Blatný, Milada Součková, Ivan Diviš and Petr

Král, to show the continuity and changes in the western poetic tradition and expressions

of exile.

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