Publication at Catholic Theological Faculty |
2014
Abstract
On the occasion of holding a seminar of spoken Latin in Vienna, the book named above (1893) is analyzed as a subversive political poetry, in the context of poet's other works and public activities. Scepticism and political fighting were almost omnipresent in his books.
The Viennese book is compared with Ovid's Tristia: except the title and lack of positive thinking, other circumstances are remarkably different. Some crucial moments of constituting the Czechoslovak state (1918) are illustrated, namely the role of massons: Machar was one of the most prominent of them.
His disapointment in the new state, expressed in the book "Tristium Praga I-C", and his switch to fascism are mentioned as well.