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

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The Will to Chance Necessity and Arbitrariness in the Czech Avant-Garde from Poetism to Surrealism THE WILL TO CHANCE Necessity and Arbitrariness in the Czech Avant-Garde from Poetism to Surrealism MALYNNE M. STERNSTEIN Bloomington, Indiana, 2007 First published in 2007. Copyright © 2007 by the author. All rights reserved. Technical Editors: Jen Maceyko, Isabelle Kaplan Editorial Assistants: Robert Gager and Karen Kowal Cover image after Jindfich Styrsky, from Vitezslav Nezval, Absolutni hrohur (Prague: Fr. Borovy, 1937) ISBN-13: 978-0-89357-323-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sternstein, Malynne M., 1966The will to chance: necessity and arbitrariness in the Czech avant-garde from poetism to surrealism I Malynne M. Sternstein.- 1st ed. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-893S7-323-X (alkpaper) 1. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -Czech Republic--History-20th century. 2. Chance-History-20th century. l. Title. BH301.A94S74 2005 700'.411'094371--dc22 2005018142 Siavica Publishers Indiana University 2611 E. 1Dth St. Bloomington, IN 47408-2603 USA [Tel.] 1-812-856-4186 [Toll-free]1-877-SlAVICA [Fax] 1-812-856-4187 [Email] slavica@indiana.edu [www] http://www.slavica.com/ For Thomas, Smila, Malani, and Nongpoth, born retro-avant-garde, and for Larry ...