Jaroslav Seifert
On the waves of TSF : poetry = Na vlnách TSF : poesie

2011 | Filip Tomáš - Akropolis ve spolupráci s Jiřím Tomášem - nakladatelství Akropolis

The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert and Karel Teige . Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World… Wars and founding members of the artists’ group Devětsil. Karel Teige laid out the verses of his friend Jaroslav Seifert as striking typographical poems. Purportedly, he “depleted” nearly all the font cases he could find at Obzina’s printing shop. In any case, he faithfully fulfilled the precepts of poetism about the world and poetry—to be multisensory. Imbued with “all the beauties of the world,” Seifert’s verses are introduced with a mischievously reversed paraphrase of Karel Hynek Máchas famous words: Light grief on the face / Deep laughter in the heart. With the effortlessness mimicking wireless transmission, Seifert and Teige transport us to Paris , to places where pineapples grow, to Australia, Marseille, New York, to distant ocean shores, and back to the banks of the Vltava river in Prague—all this facilitated, as it were, by Télégraphie sans fil . To be sure, the greatest concern of the lyrically gloomy narrator is joyfully unambiguous honeymoon destinations; if die we must, let us die of love... In subsequent editions , Seifert’s youthful manifesto was titled Svatební cesta . Understandably so, because the changed circumstances of Czech poetry hardly allowed for stepping into the same river twice; the former associates parted ways in their creative endeavors. Teige became a multifaceted art theoretician and embraced surrealism. After breaking with the communist party in 1929, Seifert became a lifelong social democrat and devoted himself primarily to newspaper journalism. The first edition of Na vlnách TSF gradually became rare until only reprints allowed us to explore the sources of this visual, almost hedonistic poetry. As a reprint, the collection is appearing for the fifth time, this time in its most faithful facsimile incarnation and in two independent permutations—in the original Czech version and as an English-Czech remake by Zdeněk Trinkewitz, translated by Dana Loewy. The Czech-born translator lives in the United States where early in her career, she won a student translation prize by the American Translators Association . Subsequently, she received an honorary mention by the foremost Czech translators association and her translations of Jaroslav Seifert’s early work were published in 1997 by Hydra Books, a division of Northwestern University Press. The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert and Karel Teige . Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection N…a vlnách TSF with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and founding members of the artists’ group Devětsil. Karel Teige laid out the verses of his friend Jaroslav Seifert as striking typographical poems. Purportedly, he “depleted” nearly all the font cases he could find at Obzina’s printing shop. In any case, he faithfully fulfilled the precepts of poetism about the world and poetry—to be multisensory. Imbued with “all the beauties of the world,” Seifert’s verses are introduced with a mischievously reversed paraphrase of Karel Hynek Máchas famous words: Light grief on the face / Deep laughter in the heart. With the effortlessness mimicking wireless transmission, Seifert and Teige transport us to Paris , to places where pineapples grow, to Australia, Marseille, New York, to distant ocean shores, and back to the banks of the Vltava river in Prague—all this facilitated, as it were, by Télégraphie sans fil . To be sure, the greatest concern of the lyrically gloomy narrator is joyfully unambiguous honeymoon destinations; if die we must, let us die of love... In subsequent editions , Seifert’s youthful manifesto was titled Svatební cesta . Understandably so, because the changed circumstances of Czech poetry hardly allowed for stepping into the same river twice; the former associates parted ways in their creative endeavors. Teige became a multifaceted art theoretician and embraced surrealism. After breaking with the communist party in 1929, Seifert became a lifelong social democrat and devoted himself primarily to newspaper journalism. The first edition of Na vlnách TSF gradually became rare until only reprints allowed us to explore the sources of this visual, almost hedonistic poetry. As a reprint, the collection is appearing for the fifth time, this time in its most faithful facsimile incarnation and in two independent permutations—in the original Czech version and as an English-Czech remake by Zdeněk Trinkewitz, translated by Dana Loewy. The Czech-born translator lives in the United States where early in her career, she won a student translation prize by the American Translators Association . Subsequently, she received an honorary mention by the foremost Czech translators association and her translations of Jaroslav Seifert’s early work were published in 1997 by Hydra Books, a division of Northwestern University Press.

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O knize

Stav:	Dobrý
Vazba:	brožovaná
Počet stran:	79, 68
Jazyk:	česky , anglicky
ISBN10:	8087481429
ISBN:	9788087481424
Překladatel:	Dana Loewy
Vydání:	2. vydání
Vydáno v:	Praha
Vystaveno:	7. 8. 2025 14:16
Číslo položky:	1335224

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Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert byl český básník, spisovatel, novinář a překladatel. Patřil mezi členy hnutí Devětsil, stál na počátku českého uměleckého směru poetismu. Je jediným českým nositelem Nobelovy ceny za literaturu , kterou získal za „poezii, která svěží smyslovostí a mimořádnou vynalézavostí podává osvobozující obraz lidské nezdolnosti a mnohotvárnosti“. Navzdory komplikovaným vztahům s komunistickou mocí obdržel titul národního umělce. Patřil k prvním signatářům Charty 77. Narodil se do chudých poměrů v dnešní Bořivojově ulici čp. 816/104 na Žižkově, dnes Praha 3, a byl pokřtěn 5. října jako Jaroslav Václav. Na rodném domě je umístěna pamětní deska. Jeho otec, původně úředník, pak nepříliš úspěšný obchodník s obrazy a rámy a později dělník, byl „uvědomělým socialistou“, zatímco matka byla zbožná katolička. Seifert se o tom později vyjádřil: „Tyto protiklady mi také trochu zůstaly – v životě i v poezii.“ Během jeho dětství se rodina několikrát stěhovala po různých, vesměs nuzných, podnájmech v rámci Žižkova. Svá středoškolská studia si Seifert odbýval nejprve na c. k. vyšším gymnáziu na Žižkově v Kubelíkově ulici . Přestože patřil k bystrým žákům, svá studia nedokončil pro mnoho neomluvených hodin, které trávil vesměs touláním se po Praze, účastí na dělnických demonstracích a horlivou četbou. Od roku 1919 mu začínaly vycházet první básně v různých časopisech a novinách, např. pod patronací Josefa Hory v Právu lidu. Jeho první básnická sbírka, Město v slzách, byla vydána v roce 1921. V témže roce dvacetiletý Seifert vstoupil do právě založené Komunistické strany Československa a stal se pravidelným přispěvatelem jejího nově založeného listu Rudé právo, jímž byl až do roku 19...

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