Karel Teige was one of the leading theorists of the Czech avant-garde, and his activity is bound up with the most enriching cultural contributions made to the Czech Republic in the first half of the twentieth century. Proclaiming himself a Marxist, he was frequently at odds with Czech liberal-pragmatic thought. The emergence of European totalitarianism coincided with a major turning-point in his life when, towards the end of the 1930s, he had to come to terms with the Nazi invasion of his country and with the local version of Stalinism. After the War he was marginalised from cultural life and he died of a heart attack while being persecuted in a ferocious campaign of defamation by the Communist Party.
The book offers a portrait of this protagonist of European culture and of the process of rediscovery that in the 1960s reintegrated his work and his thought into the extraordinary cultural revival that blossomed in the Prague Spring of 1968.
University of Cagliari, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-5786-6564
Book Title
Karel Teige fra Cecoslovacchia, URSS ed Europa
Book Subtitle
Avanguardia, utopia e lotta politica
Authors
Massimo Tria
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
294
Publication Year
2012
Copyright Information
© 2012 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-348-9
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-147-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-348-9
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-587-3
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679