Bohuslav Brouk – O smrti, lásce a žárlivosti [On Death, Love and Jealousy]. First, Pre-confiscation Edition, 1936. Cover by Karel Teige.

Bohuslav Brouk – O smrti, lásce a žárlivosti [On Death, Love and Jealousy]. First Edition, 1936. Cover by Karel Teige.

Brouk, Bohuslav. O smrti, lásce a žárlivosti – Úmyslná smrt [On Death, Love and Jealousy – Intentional Death]. Prague: Alois Srdce, January 1936. First edition. 8vo. 53 pp. Original printed wrappers. Cover design and typography by Karel Teige.First, pre-confiscation edition of an essay by Bohuslav Brouk (1912–1978), Czech surrealist writer and theorist, examining voluntary death and suicide from sociological and psychological perspectives. Subtitled Pendant k sociologickým studiím o tak zvané sebevraždě [A Companion to Sociological Studies on So-Called Suicide]. Brouk was associated with the Czech surrealist movement and wrote extensively on sexuality, psychoanalysis, and social conventions. The book was confiscated by the Czechoslovak authorities in May 1936 and subsequently reissued in a corrected second edition, explicitly identified as such on its wrappers. The present copy is the original January 1936 printing, preceding the confiscation. Good+ condition. Fading to wrapper borders and minor tear to spine.