Poetry
Mladý svadobník
Not translated into English
Rudolf Dilong · 1936
Synopsis
A collection tinged with surrealism and marked by Czech poetism, in which the Franciscan monk, coming from an idyllic and pastoral poetry, seeks a new mode of expression. Like all his lyric poetry, it remains anchored in the Christian faith while leaving room for a marked sensuality, at times with erotic accents. It is seen as the clearest sign of its author's modernist turn, before the return to religious themes in Ja, svätý František, in 1938.
Context
The collection appeared in 1936, after Hviezdy a smútok (1934) and Helena nosí ľaliu (1935), at a time when the author was drawing on several poetic currents. A leading figure of the Slovak Catholic modern movement, he became linked in the early 1940s to the surrealist movement; Edita Príhodová regards him as an “external” surrealist and finds the source of his imagination in the memories of a painful childhood, and Jozef Felix coins the word “dilongism” to express his influence on young poets. He would publish more than seventy collections in exile.
Who it is for
A collection of teeming imagery, in which faith and the senses answer one another from poem to poem.
Prizes and reception
The book that marks the turning point of a poet with an immense body of work, rich in more than a hundred collections.
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