On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry

• Main Author: Mrázek, Jan
• Format: eBook
• Language: Czech
• Published: Karolinum 2022
• Edition: 1. elektronické vydání
• Subjects: Literární věda
• ISBN: 978-80-246-5112-5; 978-80-246-5126-2
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (324 stran)

"I love Christmas, that Muslim holiday."(K. Biebl) In 1926, the communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898-1951) travelled from Czechoslovakia to the Dutch East Indies. In his texts, poetic and often comic, both landlocked Bohemia and the colonized tropical islands are seen disorie...