Atmosphere of societal anxiety and representations of the body: The image of man in surrealist works of Vítězslav Nezval in the 20th century interwar period in Bohemia
Journal Title: Journal of Education Culture and Society - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
Aim. The interwar period in Czechoslovakia was a time of societal anxiety. The aim of this paper is to Ţ nd the central themes of societal fear, as reß ected in the surrealist works of Vítďzslav Nezval, a czech poet. The analysis will be based primarily on the lyric poetry from the collections: Žena v množném Āísle [Woman in Plural] (1936) and Absolutní hrobaĢ [Absolute Gravedigger] (1937). Methods. The analysis is based on the Josef Vojdovík’s anthropo-phenomenological method of exploring the surrealist perceptions of the body, which is based on vertical and horizontal anthropological dimensions and phenomenological conceptions of fears. Results. Surrealist poetry and other literary works contain images of the body that are changed by fear: deformations, metamorphoses, fragmentarisations, hybridisations, expressing the body as a collage, a mosaic, an amalgam, a phantom, a grotesque, an inlay, and as lifelessness. It undergoes multiple metamorphoses, not only within its own form, but also with regard to the categories of life and lifelessness. Conclusions. The analysis leads to the conclusion, that V. Nezval’s works show a clear tendency to portray the body as an object which undergoes a metamorphosis. The body is balanced on the edge between living and dead, organic and inorganic, it is determined by time and space. It is often shown along the narrowing-widening relation, in stupor, petriŢ cation, reduced to a ß at surface or miniaturised.
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Anna Maria Brzezińska
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- DOI 10.15503/jecs20181.181.189
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