2024 # 6 (68)
Vinokurova L.A.
Hypostases of the Lyrical Subject of the Poetic Cycles of J.H. Krchovský of the 1990s in the Context of the Epoch
Abstract
The article focuses on the lyrics of the 1990s written by the contemporary Czech poet J.H. Krchovský (b. 1960, real name – Jiří Hašek) and examines the category of the lyrical subject, which manifests the existential uncertainty experienced by the author in the conditions of changes taking place in Czechoslovakia (later the Czech Republic) after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The system of hypostases of the lyrical subject is determined by the Baroque opposition of ‘soul without body’ (‘persona non grata’) to ‘body without soul’ (different marginal individuals), which is attempted to be overcome by the hypostase of the ‘modern’ Jesus Christ who breaks the mirror, a neo-romantic symbol of the separation of two worlds, and by the neo-decadent poet who combines the author-creator (Jiří Hašek) and the intra-textual author (J.H. Krchovský, the ‘cemetery’ poet). The complex subject structure of Krchovský’s social-critical poetry (author-creator – intra-textual author – lyrical subject – his hypostases) allows one to speak of Krchovský’s study of the depths of the human soul, which represents the concept of a mini-universe in the mind of a single individual, that is quite representative for the Czech poetry of the 1990s.
Key words
subject structure of lyric poetry, lyrical subject, social-critical poetry, Czech poetry, existentialism, soul-body interaction