Absolute Gravedigger Nezval Vitezslav
Absolute Gravedigger Nezval Vitezslav The Absolute Gravedigger, published in 1937, is in many ways the culmination of Vitězslav Nezval's work as an avant-garde poet, combining the Poetism of his…
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Absolute Gravedigger Nezval Vitezslav
The Absolute Gravedigger, published in 1937, is in many ways the culmination of Vitězslav Nezval's work as an avant-garde poet, combining the Poetism of his earlier work and his turn to Surrealism in the 1930s with his political concerns in the years leading up to World War II. And while a number of salient political issues emerge from the Surrealist ommatidia, Nezval's imagination here is completely free-wheeling and untethered to any specific locale as he displays mastery of a variety of forms, from long-limbed imaginative free verse narratives to short, formally rhymed meditations in quatrains, to prose and even visual art (the volume includes six of his decalcomania images). It is above all a collection of startling verbal and visual inventiveness.
Together with his previous two collections, The Absolute Gravedigger forms one of the most important corpora of interwar Surrealist