Description
This bilingual edition presents travel sketches and poems by the Czech avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl, inspired by his journey to tropical Java in December 1926. His delicate poetic imagination reflects both his wonder at the beauty of the Javanese world and his opposition to Dutch colonialism, while his exploration of the “new world” is permeated by humour and absurdity. Biebl offers an original account of his travels through the island, which in the 1920s was administered as part of the Dutch East Indies. His experiences and poems inspired by the Javanese landscape appear in parallel in the Czech original and Indonesian translation. Written almost a century ago, these impressions now form a classic poetic yet realistic testimony to a distant land whose remoteness and inaccessibility once stirred mainly adventurous ideas and dreams. The book introduces this distinctive gem of Czech literature to both Czech and Indonesian readers.
Information
Author: Biebl Konstantin
Language: English
Publication date: August 10, 2023
Manufacturer: Czech.Ina Group s.r.o.
Genres: Novels, Books, Fiction, Bilingual literature, Foreign language books
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 135
ISBN/EAN: 9788011024864