Létavice touhy - Erotismus v dílech Zbyňka Havlíčka, Jany Krejcarové a Egona Bondyho – Kopáč Radim (2011)

"Fall, stars / But more beautiful than you are the electric discharges of gender / Fall, women / Shot-down flying creatures of desire." This excerpt from a little-known poetic text by Zbyněk Havlíček (1922–1969) opens the theme of the presented book, which is the exposed eroticism in the works of Havlíček, Jana Krejcarová (1928–1981), and Egon Bondy (1930–2007), three indispensable figures of post-war Czech poetry and (initially underground) culture. Especially at the end of the 1940s (and again in the first half of the 1960s), their life and artistic fates closely intersected. In terms of expression, each aimed in a different direction from the beginning (from surrealism in many forms to total realism), yet they shared a long-term common theme: intense interpersonal affiliations, often of an intimate nature. This is evidenced by Krejcarová's famous cycle In My Father's Garden (in connection with Havlíček's collection Left Hand) and Bondy's Appendix for Honza Krejcarová (in response to her Letter from Spring 1962), as well as a number of other affinities. The anthology of the aforementioned, mostly rare and almost inaccessible texts was compiled and prefaced by Radim Kopáč.