Vzájemná korespondence Jana Čepa a Bohumila Nováka
Petr Komenda, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci
Recenzovaný článek
s. 256–333(obrazová příloha s. 337–342)
Licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.63013/la.2025.09
The Correspondence Between Jan Čep and Bohumil Novák
Abstract:
This selected correspondence of Jan Čep and Bohumil Novák from 1940 through
1945 includes the editiorial communication between Čep, a Catholic author,
and the literary critic and writer Bohumil Novák, who had been working for the
František Borový Press since 1939. The selected correspondence is an important source for researching the genesis of Čep’s book Polní tráva [Field Grass], which
the author began preparing for publication in 1943 (it was ultimately released
after the war in 1946). However, the letters also provide important testimony about how literary life worked under German occupation (1939–1945), about the position of writers at that time, and about the effect of censorship during the occupation. The shorter study that precedes the selected correspondence does its best to contextualize the editing letters in the literary-critical and publishing life of that time, as well as to illuminate why Čep, in the course of just a few years (1938–1945), changed publishers three times (Melantrich until 1938, Vyšehrad from 1940 to 1943, František Borový from 1943 to 1945, and back to Vyšehrad after the war). The author’s creative crisis and the growing repression from the occupying regime were the reasons.
Klíčová slova:
Jan Čep; Bohumil Novák; redakční korespondence; literatura za německé okupace;
geneze knihy Polní tráva
Keywords:
Jan Čep; Bohumil Novák; editorial correspondence; literature during the German
occupation; genesis of the book Polní tráva [Field Grass]
Citace:
Komenda, Petr: Vzájemná korespondence Jana Čepa a Bohumila Nováka. Literární archiv 57, PEN klub a jeho autoři, 2025. Ed. Klára Krásenská, s. 256–333; https://doi.org/10.63013/la.2025.09.