By Alfred Thomas
The Bohemian physique examines the modernist forces inside of 19th- and twentieth-century Europe that assisted in shaping either Czech nationalism and inventive interplay between ethnic and social groups—Czechs and Germans, women and men, gays and straights. via re-examining the paintings of key Czech female and male writers and poets from the nationwide Revival to the Velvet Revolution, Alfred Thomas exposes the tendency of Czech literary feedback to split the political and the non-public in glossy Czech tradition. He issues in its place to the complicated interaction of the political and the private throughout ethnic, cultural, and highbrow strains and in the works of such person writers as Karel Hynek M?cha, Bozena Nemcov?, and Rainer Maria Rilke, leading to the emergence and evolution of a protean sleek identification. The product is a possible paradoxical but nuanced knowing of Czech tradition (including literature, opera, and film), lengthy missed or misunderstood via Western students.
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The mortuary chamber in which the fleeing girl takes refuge recalls the nuptial chamber that serves as the setting of the union of Christ and his sponsa Christi, the female-connoted Soul, in the medieval mystical tradition. The spectral lover is here the diabolical obverse of the lover-knight Christ. In the fourteenth-century illuminated Passional of the Abbess Kunhuta, this split imago is exemplified in the Latin parable of the Invincible Knight (De strenuo milite). In the illustrations that accompany the Latin text, the female Soul is abducted by the Devil and thrown into a fiery chamber; but she is subsequently delivered from her torment by the lover-knight Christ who slays the abductor and is united with the lady-Soul.
The son of a grocer-turned-soldier and a female servant in the household of Frenchman Joachim Barrand, Neruda made the Lesser Town of Prague the microcosmic focus of his most famous short stories. After completing high school, Neruda went on to study at the Philosophical Faculty of Prague University, but poverty forced him to interrupt his training to be a teacher. He went to work on a newspaper and spent his whole life in journalism, adapting his gifts for precise and compressed observation to the art of the short story.
Vilém’s metaphysical exile from paradise is inseparable from his girlfriend’s loss of sexual innocence. Raped by Vilém’s own father, Jarmila bears the oedipal brunt of the son’s anger at this loss, articulated by the plumed messenger in the boat whom she mistakes for her flamboyant paramour: He has discovered his shame and your guilt; murdering your seducer, he has murdered his father. — He will have peace only when his cheeks, which now blossom like roses, paled, will come to rest over the wheel when they have threaded his slim limbs into the wheel.