The Will to Chance: Necessity and Arbitrariness in the Czech Avant-Garde

Contents

Contents Prologue ............................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 5 Chapter One Against Arbitrariness .................................................................................. 23 Chapter Two The Plastic Word.......................................................................................... 51 Chapter Three The Simultaneous Vision ............................................................................ 81 Chapter Four Each of Us Tracks His Own Toad ............................................................ 111 Chapter Five The Bed in the Background: The Erotics of Chance in the Discourses of Czech Surrealism ....................................... 135 Conclusion .................................................................................................... 173 Epilogue The Poet and the Hangman ...................................................................... 193 Works Cited or Consulted ........................................................................... 201 Index .............................................................................................................. 217 ...