Media responses of postwar poetry of Jiří Kolář (Dny v roce, Roky v dnech)

This thesis is analyzing post-war poetry of Czech poet Jiri Kolar, concretely his poems Dny v roce and its diary modification Roky v dnech. It is focused on historical context of Kolar's publishing era, the foundation of Skupina 42 (Group 42), introduces poet's life and his work, mainly the two recently mentioned books. This thesis emphasizes the importance and meaning of Kolar's work within Czech literature, his unusual methods Kolar's uses and creates. It shows his experimental behavior and forms of language. In the end it focuses on the media response of these two works demonstrated by reviews, deeply influenced by the communistic ideology. It mentions the fact that Dny v roce was published at the time, Roky v dnech wasn't though. Thesis emphasizes the importance of historical context of post-war era and political situation, that didn't support artists like Jiri Kolar. Despite this Kolar's work was not published always at the time and it changed the whole perspective of his work. That also caused Kolar's development in art in more artistic way using more visual and abstract language in his poems. The thesis focuses on this fact, construes media response, generally reflects relationship between journalists and Kolar's work with emphasize on the former conditions in media. Also it includes..