- Bib ID:
- 7129241
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Reynek, Bohuslav, 1892-1971, author
- Uniform Title:
- Večerní okna. French
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. SRq 313 copy
- Description:
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- [Canberra and Losne] : Labyrinth Press, MDCCCC LXXXXVII [1997]
- 52 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 x 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Bohuslav Reynek is one of the major Czech poets of the inter-war period, and was persecuted for political reasons in the later part of his life. Jiří (Michel) Reynek, the translator, is his son. Petr Herel is given equal (if secondary) billing to the author on the cover. Ten colour etchings and aquatints, including a frontispiece, accompany each of the poems, printed on thick ivory-toned Vellum Zerkall Antik paper. Frédérique Martin-Scherrer suggests these beautiful prose poems conjure up the image of the windows through which the poet carries a long meditative look at the garden of his house, in all hours and in all seasons; the dreams and thoughts that inhabit his inner world become visible, come to paint on the windows, until the appearance of the face of the "angel of death" through the fog of winter at the end of the book. She likens the etchings to window panes on which reflected visions seem to drag on the glass like phosphenes behind closed eyelids: faces, figures and all kinds of motifs, figurative or abstract, emerge from the personal world of the artist in a creative work parallel to that of the poet.
- Notes:
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- "Bylo vytištěno 35 výtisků na papíře Zerkall s deseti lepty Petra Herela, podepsáno a očíslováno I-XXXV. = Il a été tiré 35 exemplaires sur Zerkall, avec dix gravures de Petr Herel, signées, les colophons étant numérotés de I à XXXV."
- "Písmem Didot vysázel Thierry Bouchard a vytiskl v Losne 9 července 1997, lepty vytiskl atelier Georges Leblanc v Paříži = Achevé d'imprimer le 9 juillet 1997 en Didot de 11 sur les presses de Thierry Bouchard à Losne pour la typographie, et sur celles de l'atelier de Georges Leblanc à Paris pour la gravure."-Colophon.
- National Library of Australia's SRq 313 copy was donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program and is no. 31/35, signed by Petr Herel and Thierry Bouchard.
- SRq 313 copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-501876558
- Text in Czech, with facing French translation.
- Cited In:
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- Labyrinth Press books 1980-2007, 17
- Bibliographie des livres imprimés en typographie de 1975 à 2006 par Thierry Bouchard sur ses presses de Losne, 274
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- Tomeš, Jan M, editor
- Reynek, Jiří, 1929-2014, translator
- Herel, Petr, 1943-2022, artist
- Bouchard, Thierry, 1954-2008, typographer
- Labyrinth Press, issuing body
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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