Karel Valtr Černý: Ani omyl, ani objev…
Karel Valtr Černý: Neither Error nor Invention …

Summary/Abstract: While it must be said, that especially film and theatre lexicons and databases offer basic data on art career of the actor and director Karel Černý (1892–1945), the bohemistic literary history has devoted only to a small extent to Černý’s literary heritage. Yet, in 1933, the artist published a remarkable expressive collection “Blahoslavený člověk” (“Blessed Man”; published under the name Valtr Černý) which came into existence as a reaction to his many years’stay in a psychiatric hospital. Similar dramatic experiences are welding together his only, thematically unique, novel “Případ herce Haltera” (“The Case of Actor Halter”; from 1934). These inventive works present the inclination to the civil or phenomenological perceiving of the world, and, in addition, especially “The Case of Actor Halter” demonstrates the step from psychologically intended narration towards the record of the actual reality.

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