Existenciálna poetika – Leopold Lahola (Vtáčí spev)
Existential Poetics – Leopold Lahola (Birdsong)

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the paper is to use a particular piece of writing by Leopold Lahola in orderto describe the principles of existential poetics seen in a wider sense, as opposed tothe literary historical concept of existentialism.In the first part of the paper, what is pointed out is the key, nodal points of literaryhistorical reflection on the works by Leopold Lahola, which were from the start linkedwith the poetics of French existentialism. Later, in the 1960s the opinion was reviewedthrough the optics of humanism, mainly functioning within the political backgroundof the times. The research conducted in the period of the last two decades, however,shows how problematic these interpretations are.The hypothesis of the paper based on knowing the assumptions of philosophyof existence seen in a wider sense and intuitive reading of Leopold Lahola´s writingslies in interpretation of poetics present in the writings using the key of existentialimagination, and the absence of this in the history of reflection on the author´s worksis the reason why their aesthetic impact is not exactly understood.In order to understand the concept of existential poetics as much as possible,the analysis uses the only short piece of writing by Leopold Lahola titled Vtáči spev/Birdsong, which makes it possible to deal with literariness of the selected type on thefundamental level and to understand it likewise.

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