Anarchy in the Newest Generation of Czech Poetry inscribed to Seifert

František Götz – Anarchie v nejmladší české poesii
Brno: St. Kočí, 1922. Original printed wrappers, 209 pp. First edition of this important survey of Czech avant-garde and proletarian poetry, issued as “Zajímavá knihovna,” book 4. A significant document of the Brno expressionist and Literární skupina milieu, with chapters on S. K. Neumann, Josef Hora, Richard Weiner, the Čapek brothers, Fráňa Šrámek, Jiří Wolker, JAROSLAV SEIFERT, and F. X. Šalda.

Presentation inscription from the author to Jaroslav Seifert on the front free endpaper: “Básníku Jar. Seifertovi milému a dobrému člověku a příteli Fr. Götz.” (To the poet Jaroslav Seifert, a dear and good person and my friend, František Götz). A warm and personal association copy linking two central figures of the Czech interwar avant-garde. Götz published an early essay on Seifert’s revolutionary lyricism the same year this volume appeared.

From the library of Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1984). An exceptional provenance copy uniting the critic and theorist of the Literární skupina with one of the defining poets of modern Czech literature.

Condition: original wrappers preserved; some edgewear, small tears to wrapper extremities, internally clean and sound. A very good, unrestored copy of a fragile publication.