Jakobson's "Czechoslovak" Editions (on Dissimilar Textual Approaches to the "Czech" and "American" Editions of Moudrost starých Čechů)

Abstract

This paper describes two different editions of Jakobson's Moudrost starých Čechů [Wisdom of the Old Czechs], a controversial book originally published in his American exile in 1943 as an undisguised demonstration of his "anti-German" attitude, espousing his ideology of "Czechoslovak" patriotism as engaged in the struggle against Nazism.

Keywords

• Czech structuralism
• exile polemics
• the Czech and American re-edition