Hlos hrudy Voice of the soil
Best.-Nr. P5881Prague: Družstevní Práce 1935. Octavo 19.8 × 12 cm. Original embossed ochre cloth orange dust wrappers by Ladislav Sutnar; 8 115 2 pp. Frontis drawing by Ferdiš Duša. Light sun-tanning to spine; else very good or better in very good dust jacket. Scarce third book of poems by this Silesian poet who became famous for defending the rights of speakers of the so-called Lach dialects a group of dialects situated between the Czech and Polish languages. Although Åysohorsky grew up speaking German and initially published in German he later refused to write in standard Czech publishing numerous works in Lachian. A scholar of Slavic studies he systematized the grammar of Lachian and created the first published works using this dialect. Claiming persecution by Czech authorities who refused to recognize Lachian as an independent language he later asked Stalin to intercede on his behalf. He spent time in the Soviet Union and Boris Pasternak even translated several volumes of his poetry. Because of his controversial status in Czechoslovakia his books were later banned and removed from libraries and the book trade. Nevertheless because he was a poet of the oppressed and of the working class Åysohorsky found acclaim with the Czechoslovak interwar leftist literary and artistic scene. This book also serves as an introduction to the Lach dialect with a long dictionary and introduction to pronunciation and a note that the orthography and grammar is based on an 1898 work by Jan Loriš. Binding by František Muzika typographic design and wrappers by Ladislav Sutnar. Outside the Czech Republic KVK OCLC show copies at Bamberg and Regensburg University Herder Institut Oxford UCL and Urbana-Champaign. unknown
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