Our ""modernist crisis"" : Czech modernism and Šalda in correspondence between Machar and Masaryk

Abstract

This material study focusses on the way the events and controversies of the time were received in correspondence between J. S.

Machar and T. G.

Masaryk from 1894 to 1896. It also notes and comments from a literary historical standpoint on particular factors that principally elucidate the background to the creation and controversal reception of the Czech Modernist Manifesto, while particularly following the acitivities of F.

X. Šalda.

Keywords

• Czech modernism
• T. G. Masaryk
• J. S. Machar
• F. X. Šalda