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Vtzslav Nezval was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth-century avant-garde. He was a leading founder of the Czech movement Devtsil (Nine Forces), a group that included individuals such as Nobel laureate Jaroslav Seifert, which evolved into the Czech Surrealist Group. He was born in 1900 in Biskoupky, a small town in southern Moravia. His works in English include The Absolute Gravedigger (Twisted Spoon Press, 2016), Prague with Fingers of Rain (Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2009), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Twisted Spoon Press, 2005), and Antilyrik and Other Poems (Green Integer, 2001). He died in 1958.
Nezval is a modern-day savage who tramples upon the strict canons of truth and beauty. His poetry offers a star the same priviledges of beauty as it would a molding apple left behind on a staircase. - Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightess of Being Kostovski's translation preserves the clarity and simplicity of Nezval's verse... ... A vibrant collection that introduces an Eastern European master to the West. - Kirkus Review In Farewell and a Handkerchief Nezval's poetic mind creates an evocative imagery of cities, coutries, people, social reality of the rich and the poor. the good and the bad (aproaching Nazism)in a stream of hamonic rhyming. - Karen von Kunes, Yale University Nezval was one of the great masters of true poetry of the twetieth century. He was great like Apollinaire, Jesenin, Mayakovsky and �luard. - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet, author of Life's Good Brother
