from Slovak Spring by Ladislav Novomesky Table Of Contents
(with links to extracts) Preface/acknowledgements
Page 5 Introduction:
LACO NOVOMESKY: IN THE 20th CENTURY LABYRINTH
- The melancholy of youth—page 7
- Poetry and politics in Prague—page 10
- "The poet Majakovskij is dead"—page 14
- The world´s enchanted beauty—page 19
- Hamlet in Spain—page 26
- The Saint beyond the Village—page 29
- The Minister of Cultural Revolution—page 34
- Error and treason—page 39
- Invisible in Prague—page 45
- The reform of socialism—page 46
- 30 minutes to town—page 50
- On false confession—page 56
- Campaigning against censorship—page 65
- Apologia pro vita sua—page 68
- 1968 and after: Novomesky and the invasion of Czechosovakia—page 74
- Claudio Magris on Novomesky—page 82
- On this and previous translations—page 86
From Sunday (1927):
Sunday (extract)—89
Poem—90
Colours on a palette—92
From Rhomboid (1932):
On a dactyl of Otakar Brezina—94
Journey—95
The wind over the valley—95
From Open Windows (1935):
Ordinary verses—96
Death at the railway station—96
Aeroplane over the city—97
Meetings:
Section 1 (the portrait)—98
Section 2 (image of the village)—99
Section 3 (the Saint beyond the Village)—100
Section 4 (conclusion)—101
If you need an epilogue—102
From The Saint Beyond the Village (1939):
Motto to The Saint Beyond the Village—103
Evening—103
A stroll—104
The sea—105
The smuggler—106
Prince of Denmark—106
Slovak Spring—107
Message 107
The way you are—108
A row with a bird who is counting away life—109
A word—111
From With a Smuggled Pencil (1948):
Thousand and one nights—111
With a smuggled pencil—112
From Villa Tereza (1963):
Extract 1 (self-portrait)—113
Extract 2 (Zizkov, 1920s)—113
From Thirty Minutes to Town (1963):
Extract 1 (Childhood, about 1914)—114
Extract 2 (Memories of peasant women)—117
Extract 3 (The false confession of Vladimír Clementis, 1952)—118
Extract 4 (On science, technology, and the human future)—119
From From Over There and other things (1964):
In memory of Vladimir Majakovskij—121
Prague Spring 1956—121
Thoughts—122
Just like that—123
All of a sudden—123
Wisdom—124
Motif 1950—125
Already?—127
Early evening—127
Whispers—128
Out loud!—128
From songs on unity—129
Night dialogue—130
From The House where I Live (1971):
Prievozska Street —131
At Zelezna Studnicka—131
Tearing in two—132
Poems about Novomesky by living authors:
Now he is ten days dead by Milan Richter—133
The poet in prison by Milan Rufus—134
The 1931 Poet (1931)—135
Among The Books (1941)—145
Notes to the introduction, with a list of abbreviations used—149
Sources, and supplementary notes to the poems—160
Four Novomesky poems in the Slovak original—161
Index—163
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