PT Journal
AU Holecek, L
TI The Value of Home and Landscape in Gertruda Gruberova-Goepfertova's Poetry
SO Bohemica Olomucensia
PY 2015
BP 62
EP 79
VL 7
IS 2
DI 10.5507/bo.2015.017
DE Gertruda Gruberova-Goepfertova; home; landscape; living in exile; loss of home
AB The aim of the article is to analyse and interpret Gertruda Goepfertova's (born 1924) poetry. The author mentions her relationship with Jan Cep. Her first short stories (published in Akord in 1940's) are correlative of Cep's stories Listky z alba (1944). While most of Cep's stories have a transcendental solution, her stories focus on things, senses, language and memory. Goepfertova wants to confirm things for present, not for eternity. The author of the article compares her poetry with Martin Heidegger's metaphor "poetically man dwells". Her fascination with landscape processes contrasts with her living in exile. In Goepfertova's poetry, there are two aims related to this contrast: to remind of "lost paradise" of childhood and to point out the break between modern life and nature resulting in the loss of home.
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