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Do the Czechs understand the poem by A. Blok "The Twelve"?

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018

Abstract

This paper consists of confrontational analysis of two Czech translations of Blok's famous poem The Twelve into Czech. Focusing on two translations, one by Bohumil Mathesius from 1925, which was considered canonical for many generations of Czech readers, and the most recent by Lubor Kasal from 2016.