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May (Paperback)
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Loot Price R206
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The book is a translation, in rhymed and rhymic verse, of the Czech
writer Karel Hynek Macha's long poem in the Byronic style, one of
the most famous works of Czech literature. William Harkins is the
translator and editor, and the poem, rendered here in both English
translation and Czech, is accompanied by a preface and
introduction. The story concerns the unhappy fate of a bandit hero
who unwittingly kills his own father, who had seduced his lover.
The poem is replete with an atmosphere of destiny and doom. The
principal ironic device is paradox: life and love, emblematic of
joy and happiness, lead inevitably to torture and death for the
crime of parricide. Nature, at first rejoicing in the joy of love,
turns into a mirror of gloom and death. Indeed, the poem is notable
as one in the Byronic mode that closely involves Nature as a
participant in the drama. Another notable feature is the poet's
identification of himself with the victims of the tragedy, and the
poem can be regarded as a premonition of the poet's imminent death,
which occurred several months later in a tragic accident. Macha's
poem was perhaps the strongest influence on subsequent Czech poetry
and prose. Its romantic devices clearly anticipate much of
twentieth-century literature: surrealism, existentialism, isolation
and estrangement.
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