Vítězslav Nezvals Robert-David-Balladen und ihr Verhältnis zum Surrealismus
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Reinhard Ibler
Summary
In 1936, an anonymous collection of poems entitled 52 hořkých balad věčného studenta Roberta Davida (,52 bitter ballades of the perpetual student Robert David‘) was released in the Prague publishing house Borový. Soon it became clear that the author of this book of ballades (a very strict Romanic form of poems which was made famous by François Villon) must be Vítězslav Nezval. Nezval, however, who at that time was the main representative of Czech literary surrealism, denied his authorship for many years. After a short analysis of the work (themes and motifs, poetic form) and a brief overview of its contemporary reception the question will be discussed, why the author of an extremely free literary conception such as surrealism at the same time wrote a rather conventional text using an old and very strict poetic form. As will be shown, Nezval’s oeuvre since the 1920s had always been characterized by the co-existence of avantgardistic and non-avangardistic texts. His surrealistic works and the ballades about Robert David are, on the one hand, connected by their playfulness. On the other hand, the mystifying play around the perpetual student was, maybe, determined to prepare Nezval’s withdrawal from the surrealist movement.
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