Revolver Revue
Eurozine
Revolver Revue
2011-09-20
Summary of Revolver Revue 84 (2011)
As a supplement, the autumnal issue of RR is accompanied by the book One sentence unsold elsewhere -- this time, its author is Petr Borkovec.
"Pillory the social injustice, the opposition contract, wild capitalism, corruption in the soccer industry, ideological and bank derivations, the egoism of deputy P., religious fundamentalism, the growth of propellants' prices, the tightening of belts, the emptiness of the consumerist society, the sausages vendor's coarseness, the exploitation of developing countries, the delay of the trains, the ecological vulturism, insufficient finances in the fight with child obesity? I would only be babbling like them. And piling up more junk. For those reasons also, by principle, I do not bawl out," do we read in an extract from the text The Game by Jaroslav Formnek. Contemporary Czech prose is also represented by short stories by Bohumil Krejza from the environment of the small town. "Two bubbles scribbled down by chalk / as a house sign / on the plaster, next to the door: / here lives madness," writes Jaromir Typlt in the poem Fragment B 101. The poets Jiri Dufek, Pavel Sobotka Kracmara and Zdenka Petkov are also presented with several excerpts.
The painter Jan Merta is the author of 11 moralities. Before the holidays, Richard Prince has exhibited a selection of his works in the French National Library under the title American Prayer -- Marie Minssieux-Chamonard and Jan Sekal report about it. Artist Viktor Kopasz and poet Jaromir Typlt have created the book Captivity/Fogsk. "They are in fact frottages, imprints of real objects, materials and animal bodies which I assemble into various compositions and create a story with them. Thus they have the possibility to live their rather joyful and nice posthumous life a bit longer. But there is nothing mystical about it, it's just the standard process of being reborn," says fresh RR Price laureate Chrudos Valousek about the selection of his works.
"Entertainment has a bad name. Serious people learn to distrust it and even to revile it. (...) It skirts the black heart of life and drowns life's lambency in a halogen glare. Intelligent people must keep a distance from its productions" Writer Michael Chabon's essays are not known in Czech republic, Petr Onufer introduces an extract from them in RR. The creative formation kunstWerk is also capable to overcoming the genre of the lecture, its starting point has been a "disputed solitaire" from Antonin Pribyl's atelier. Karel Haloun brings the first instalment of a cycle dedicated to "the design of music record covers in our countries from the mid sixties to the present days, with five intermezzi referring to the events beyond the western borders". Petr Babk presents the RunOx project. The cycle Ateliers continues with a visit to graphic artist Michal Cihlr.
An extensive block is dedicated to Oleg Sus. Viktor Slajchrt has prepared a commented anthology of his formerly famous mini-reviews. On the beginning of the normalisation, this exceptional personality of the Czech literary and aesthetic scene has been excommunicated from the academic grounds and deprived of any possibility of publication. An anthology of his correspondence with Jaroslav Korn is a testimony of his sad conditions of life until his death in 1982. The block is closed with Sus's portrait, which is probably the last text Zdenek Vasicek has written before his death.
The professional fate of young literary historians from the dispersed team of the Lexicon of Czech Literature is the theme of an interview led with them by Lubos Merhaut. The issue is closed by the critical section Couleur.