Revolver Revue 133/2023/ZIMA

Exercising the right to kill one's own animals carries serious consequences". Here is an excerpt from the first Czech translation of the award-winning fiction book The Metaphysical Hen House, written by the French bohemian Xavier Galmiche. New poems by Mikhail Kolesov, who lives on the Arctic Circle, were selected for RR, translated and accompanied by Martin Ryšavý. Adéla Suchánková and Jakub Guziur are the authors of a visual-textual opus entitled To the Flame. The work of the prominent Czech photography solitaire Miroslav Machotka is presented by Petr Vaňous. Jaromír Typlt introduces the Atelier of Joyful Creation, focused on art brut, which celebrated ten years of existence this year. Giotto's Crucified is the subject of Petr Jindra's essay.

Two blocks follow the contributions from the last issue. On the occasion of this year's centenary of Zbyněk Sekal's birth, we are publishing excerpts from his texts selected by Duňa Slavíková. In 1951 Sekal wrote down: "The trouble with people is that they have a great admiration for impatient, cunning and vindictive beings, that they would very much like to apply the law of an eye for an eye, but when they cannot reciprocate the one who has struck them, they will reciprocate with another, quite different arbitrary person who comes along and who can be assumed not to reciprocate (this is very important for perfect satisfaction)."

We return to the personality and work of Géza Csáth in this issue with excerpts from his diaries, translated for RR by Robert Svoboda and selected and commented on by Mateusz Chmurski in an essay entitled Csáth, Accountant of His Existence. "This collection of extraordinary sources - a work-life and at the same time a testimony of a life-work - was created somewhere between literary creation and personal addiction, accounting and sex, obsession and boredom. (...) The diaries accompany him throughout his life - in euphoria and depression, from his first notes as a young schoolboy, barely able to write, to the last lines of his tragic end. There is not a moment in his life when writing is not commonplace."

There are permanent columns: Josef Kroutvor contributed to the Seven series, and Veronika Holcova's workplace is presented in the Ateliers series. The next part of the series From Small Publishing Houses is devoted to the Fra publishing house. In a great interview with the recently deceased philosopher Jaromír Kučera, Jean-Gaspard Páleníček talks about Jiří Němec, Emanuel Hloupe, education at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, and some philosophical issues. And also a lot about Zbyněk Hejda, whose death this November is ten years ago. Couleur opens the interview in which Pavla Pečinková talks about the contradictory personality of Karel Teige. Marek Vajchr discusses Pavel Kolmačka's new novel, while Barbora Čiháková reports on the "guest mainstream". Terezie Pokorná writes about Notes from a Madhouse by actor and director Miroslav Macháček and the jubilee of theatre director Andrej Krob. Viktor Karlík looks back at Juliana Jirousová. Jan Vevera reflects on the actions of our current president, Judge Fremer and the question of guilt. Adam Drda discusses the topic of "post-underground" and Daniel Iwashita discusses a "cataloguing kafkara". We also reprint František Wiendl's speech on the occasion of the launch of his book Fenced Time, as well as Daniel Vojtěch's essay prompted by the October staff strike at the Faculty of Arts.

Czech edition