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Seekers of Beauty and Order: Studies and Essays on 20th Century Czech Literature

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2014

Abstract

The book deals with the idea of beauty and order as the attributes of the ideal world, some idea of the social order, its spiritual and social foundation or as an expression of creative lyrical gestures. The starting point there are debates about the form of modern art, its ideological foundation, its aesthetic transformations and the relationship to social and political issues, as put leftist avantgrada in polemics with more traditional or conservative groupings based writers in the 20th and 30th years of the 20th century.