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Octavo 21x14 cm., wrappers, 13(3) pp. 19/150 copies. Dvorak (1901-1958) began his life work as a poet; this is his second collection. Later he achieved success with biographic prose and organized anthologies. He moved to Prague in 1939 with the founding of the Slovak State pursued a distinguished career in literary and political circles. With drawings by O. Ondracka. Signed by the illustrator in colophon. OCLC finds no institutional holdings worldwide. A very good+ copy.

The only full publication of this legendary journal of the Slovak avant-gardeLarge quarto 34.3 x 25 cm, cloth, 1496pp. The reprint* of the legendary, most radical journal of the Slovakian avant-garde which appeared from 1924-26 and 1931-37 (here all published). It began as an artistic venture by the Davisti group of artists, writers and intellectuals spearheading the latest Slovak arts and literature. Always leftist in persuasion with Vlado Clementis as publisher, it went to a more political direction after three years and leaned to Soviet policy. Clementis himself was in and out of favor with Moscow. He objected to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, exiled in Paris and London during the war. Returning afterward he became Czechoslovak Foreign Minister in 1948 and in 1952 was arrested with Slanský, from that he was convicted and hanged. He was rehabilitated in 1963, which enabled this production to go forward by the Slovak Academy of Sciences with his name now acceptable..
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Octavo 21.5x14 cm., wrappers, (6)120 pp. The first surrealist almanac in Slovak language. It notes that it is numbers 6-8 of Slovenský smery umeleckých a kritických, from May to July1938. It is the summary compilation of previous numbers which were individual articles appearing in this journal over 1937-38. The pagination starts as p. 201 but the Table of Contents indicate articles starting from page 1, hence the disparity. It was also this journal's only effort in this direction and it was shuttered soon thereafter. Editor M. Bakoš (1914-1972) became the foremost literary scholar and literary theorist in Slovak and other literatures; he was very active in the founding Slovakian surrealism. The almanac includes French contributors (Breton, Apollinaire, Tzara) and Czechs (Jakobson, Mukařovský), along with the majority of texts by Slovakian writers (Dedinský, Považan, Bakoš, Lenko, Hrušovský, Matuška, Fabry, Reisel, Žáry, Rak). Visuals include black and white illustrations by Toyen,… Read More