Poslední Šlépěje by Jakub Deml, or Deml in Samizdat

This study introduces the so far unknown samizdat selection of Deml‘s poems entitled Poslední Šlépěje (The Last Footprints, 1982), put together and published by Josef Veselý and Bohumil Macháček in the South Bohemian JITROcel samizdat edition of Jiří Dinda. This volume represents the first edition of Deml‘s late versified social commentaries and its challenges the established literary-historical view of Deml‘s last satirical poems which until now have been known from Jiří Kuběna‘s arrangement. The second and more extensive part of the study reviews the history of publication of Deml’s works as well as the research on Deml carried out in Czechoslovakia in the years 1948–1989, focussing primarily on semi-official publications and samizdat editions, including journal articles and papers published in proceedings