Plameny v zrcadle - francouzské básně v próze

The genre of prose poems, which in its extremely sophisticated form ranges between poetry, essays, maxims and old engravings, has not been cultivated much in this country. The names of Vít Obrtel or Jan Vladislav may come to mind, and before them - how else - Jaroslav Vrchlický. Their home is France. The anthology "Flames in the Mirror" traces their transformations from Baudelaire through Rimbaud, Mallarmé and Proust to Jacob and Reverdy. They are meant to be "jewels" and "the pleasing twilight of life", but they can also express with radioactive intensity an inner or outer life experience or capture an eloquent snippet of a bloodily serious episode.

Czech edition