A tělo se stalo slovem – Brikcius Eugen (2014)

A collected work of the inquisitive writer and artist Eugen Brikcius, born in 1942 in Prague, contains the complete verbal oeuvre of the author in poetry, prose, his studies and essays dedicated to visual arts, literature, culture, as well as the phenomena of mystification and gourmetism, and also scripts written for television and radio. The texts, created from the 1960s to the present, are divided into sections by genre and include both works that have already been published in book form after 1989 and those that have only been printed in magazines, various catalogs, monographs, anthologies, and bibliophile publications, as well as texts that have not yet been published. Brikcius's collected work thus updates the author's titles that are now hard to access, such as 'Explained Artists' (1991), 'Collected Works' (1992), or 'Comfort from Mystification' (1995), and recalls his acclaimed prose and poetry books (e.g., 'A Beautiful Ride and Other Beautiful Prose', 2003; 'Dreams of Eugen Brikcius', 2002; 'Eugenial Verses', 2000; etc.) in a new context, while also presenting numerous previously unknown texts for the first time. A comprehensive literary portrait of Eugen Brikcius, a specific and indispensable figure in Czech culture over the last half-century, is accompanied by a detailed introductory study by Viktor Šlajchrt. The editor of the book is Radim...