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Kritické stati by Josef Kodíček

Kritické stati by Josef Kodíček

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The present extensive collection of Kodíček’s texts provides an opportunity to see Czech theatre culture of the first half of the 20th century in a new perspective. Like all previous volumes in the series Essays, Criticism, Analysis, the volume provides a bibliography of Kodíček’s work. An obvious part of the book is the scholarly apparatus, which includes, in addition to the editorial notes and explanatory notes, two name indexes (to the texts and to the bibliography). The book includes a CD with authentic recordings of Kodíček’s radio broadcasts that the editors managed to find.

Product specifications:

Supplier: Arts and Theatre Institute Prague
Author: Josef Kodíček
Publisher: Arts and Theatre Institute Prague
Creative: Michal Kosák, Daniel Řehák, Jan Pospíšil, Eva Šormová, Václav Sokol
Language: czech
ISBN: 978-80-7008-378-9
EAN: 9788070083789
Year of publication: 2017
Binding: hardcover V8
Edice: eseje_kritiky_analyzy
Department: kabinet
Number of pages: 847
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Description

This collection of theatre reports and critical essays by Josef Kodíček (1892-1954) from 1910-1937 represents a prominent personality of the so-called Čapek generation. In addition to his theatre-critical and journalistic activities, Kodíček was also active in the 1920s as a dramaturge and director of the Municipal Theatre at Královské Vinohrady, and translated plays.

As a critic, he co-determined the direction of Czech theatre for more than a quarter of a century. In his view of theatre and art in general, he drew on the legacy of classical European culture, was a strong antipode of the interwar left-wing avant-garde, rejected „toy“ poetism, the „self-serving intentionality“ of surrealism and arbitrary experimentation with artistic form. Although he was one of the most prominent and feared critics of his time, his work is virtually unknown to contemporary theatregoers, not to mention the wider cultural public.

The fact that he has been de facto displaced from Czech culture and its awareness was largely due to his double emigration. He left his homeland for the first time in 1938, when he was threatened with persecution because of his Jewish origin; thanks to his early emigration, he did not become a victim of the Holocaust. As an opinionated opponent of the political and cultural left, the communist (and any totalitarian) regime and thought, he became an „enemy of the people’s democratic establishment“ from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Kodíček’s anti-regime position was confirmed by his involvement with the British BBC and later with RFE in Munich. The present publication seeks to restore it to its rightful place.

The edition includes texts from the period before the First World War, but its focus is on texts from the interwar period, when Kodíček regularly followed the work of the Prague National Theatre, the Municipal Theatre at Královské Vinohrady, and the directorial achievements of K. H. Hilar, K. Dostal, J. Kvapil, etc., as well as the work of the comedian Vlasta Burian.

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