Holman, Březiniana II.












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            Petr, Holman, Březiniana II. Dokumenty, ohlasy, paralely, přesahy 1966–2006. TRIÁDA 2012, 

            978-80-87256-81-7.

            A collage of opinions, notes, references and reflections on Otokar Březina from various pe

            cases are immersed in the life of literature, both from Bohemia and from abroad, and in ot
            from various specialisations, and who react in a neutral, passionate, positive or negative
            do so in their letters, reviews, specialised papers, dedications and the like. This reflec

            life of a great poet of Czech and world symbolism, whose inspiration among other things al
            religious systems, texts and literature of ancient India.

            However, this project did not arise only by way of a thorough investigation of libraries. 
            source is also the correspondence and everyday oral communication (also by way of ordinary
            post, fax or even the telephone answering machine). On the basis of both oral and postal c

            arose materials a broad geographical network, which document Březina’s almost planetary om
            The book offers a testimony about the existence and non-existence of the values, forms and
            of the Březinian phenomenon in the modern world, in other words a testimony about the mode

            which – for most of us surprisingly and unconsciously – appears as coherent phenomenon tha
            considered to be a classic. This text is equally interesting both for a general reader and
            in Březina’a work. – After Holman’s edition of the poet’s prosaic creation Hudba pramenů a

            (Music of the Springs and Other Essays, 1989, 1996), the previous volume of Březiniana stu
            which refers the title of this Březiniana II, and after the complete edition of Březina’s 
            (Correspondence, 2004), the present text appears to be a new venture in the sphere of rese

            history as a document of the mutual interpenetration of the past and present.