The paper deals with the History of Contemporary Czech Poetry (Storia della poesia ceca contemporanea), the first book by Italian Bohemist and Russianist Angelo M. Ripellino, which appeared in four hundred numbered copies in Rome in 1950. It was a period in which many of the poets, critics and artists the author was writing about were persecuted by the Communist regime and left for forgotten. This seventy-yearold study is interesting today not for its content so much as its style and composition. Ripellino’s understanding and interpretation of Czech culture is shaped by the link between art and literature (the book, dedicated to “Ela and friends of Group 42,” contains 19 reproductions of paintings). It was here that the young scholar first applied a critical method which remains largely his own, and which would become a central feature of his “essay-novel” Magic Prague (Praga magica, 1973). Ripellino built his critical discourse as a mosaic of critical meditations, citations, and contributions, and it is not by chance that after many years Ripellino would begin Magic Prague with a reference to Arcimboldo as his teacher – a painter he first learned about through Karel Teige. The History of Contemporary Czech Poetry represents a sort of precursor in embryo to Magic Prague, a work which Ripellino first considered calling Alchimia di Praga (Alchemy of Prague) – references to the “alchemy of the city” can be found throughout The History of Contemporary Czech Poetry.

Úvodem: Kouzlo pražské alchymie / Cosentino, Annalisa. - (2019), pp. 7-19.

Úvodem: Kouzlo pražské alchymie

Annalisa Cosentino
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2019

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The paper deals with the History of Contemporary Czech Poetry (Storia della poesia ceca contemporanea), the first book by Italian Bohemist and Russianist Angelo M. Ripellino, which appeared in four hundred numbered copies in Rome in 1950. It was a period in which many of the poets, critics and artists the author was writing about were persecuted by the Communist regime and left for forgotten. This seventy-yearold study is interesting today not for its content so much as its style and composition. Ripellino’s understanding and interpretation of Czech culture is shaped by the link between art and literature (the book, dedicated to “Ela and friends of Group 42,” contains 19 reproductions of paintings). It was here that the young scholar first applied a critical method which remains largely his own, and which would become a central feature of his “essay-novel” Magic Prague (Praga magica, 1973). Ripellino built his critical discourse as a mosaic of critical meditations, citations, and contributions, and it is not by chance that after many years Ripellino would begin Magic Prague with a reference to Arcimboldo as his teacher – a painter he first learned about through Karel Teige. The History of Contemporary Czech Poetry represents a sort of precursor in embryo to Magic Prague, a work which Ripellino first considered calling Alchimia di Praga (Alchemy of Prague) – references to the “alchemy of the city” can be found throughout The History of Contemporary Czech Poetry.
2019
Dějiny současné české poezie
978-80-7308-890-3
Angelo Maria Ripellino; cultura ceca del Novecento; poesia contemporanea; avanguardie artistiche del Novecento
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Úvodem: Kouzlo pražské alchymie / Cosentino, Annalisa. - (2019), pp. 7-19.
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