{"id":19315,"date":"2025-01-06T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnews.cz\/?p=19315"},"modified":"2025-03-18T20:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:11:18","slug":"commissioned-for-eva-frantin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/kultura\/zadano-pro-evu-frantinovou\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioned for Eva Frantinova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just at the end of last year, this leading Czech poet delighted her readers with collections of poetry Double-shell poems<\/em><\/strong> a Closing time. <\/em>The release happened in five minutes to twelve, so to speak. Thus, not many of the poetry collections presented in these lines made it under the Christmas tree. So with the New Year, it's the best time to run to the nearest bookstore.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poet and prose writer Eva Frantinov\u00e1 in her collection Double-shell poems<\/em> He presents his creative harvest over the last two years of his work - thus covering the years 2022 - 2024. In the hundred and fifty pages of the publication with its eye-catching cover, there is a defile of verses that are more than a mere cartographic binding of words into poems. This is to say that they have their so-called second canvas with thought-provoking content to ponder. In this way, Eva Frantinov\u00e1 communicates her feelings, joys and sorrows about the world in which we move. She does so in a modern language that is constantly evolving and we have to get used to Americanisms and various Internet terms. But this is not to the detriment of the cause; on the contrary, perhaps thanks to this, the youngest generation will discover printed poetry instead of mobile phone screens. It is not difficult to decipher the individual poems, and there are more than a hundred of them in the collection. It just takes a little, little thought...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the verses are four lines, others, for example, are four pages long. In short Ideas for skipping<\/em>. What a piece, but quality poetry of the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The unread Instagram selfie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the previous collection, the volume was published Closing Hour <\/em>in festive hardcover, equipped with a silk bookmark and above all accompanied by six unique illustrations by the well-known painter Vojt\u011bch Kola\u0159\u00edk from his series of paintings Faces and hands<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared to the previous collection, these are now mostly sensitive poems, personal confessions about unhappiness and emptiness, about the irreplaceability of love and tenderness, about hope and about the loss of a loved one. Let us judge for ourselves with the randomly selected, and enclosed lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were here<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Briefly,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

like a foggy mirror<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without you<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Months of memories to mine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(not to live...)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I'll be walking around with a paper<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

with a sign around your neck<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I'm looking for the one who needs me<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

maybe you'll get into me again<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

with a gentle tassel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and it won't be about anything...<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The poet and writer Karel S\u00fds, long-time chairman of the Union of Czech Writers, as we remember him.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even after death together<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two presented collections of Eva Frantinov\u00e1's poetry have a common denominator. And that is the personality of the outstanding Czech poet without fear or reproach, Karel Sys, who left us in the second half of last year. Verses in the book Double-shell poems <\/em>was prepared by Karel for printing as the responsible editor for Periscope publishing house in the edition B\u00e1se\u0148 na sobotu. Collection Closing Hour <\/em>with illustrations by Vojt\u011bch Kola\u0159\u00edk was published by Kmen publishing house and Eva Frantinov\u00e1 attributed it to Karel S\u00fds, and also confesses her relationship to him (although she does not name him) in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their love began in 1975, when the young aspiring poet entered literature with her first poems published in the then cultural weekly Creating<\/em> a Literary Monthly<\/em>published by the Writers' Union. Here, the talented and hard-working Karel S\u00fds was already in charge of editorial duties and, among other things, cooperation with emerging authors. Soon the two found a liking for each other, firmly rooted in their common interests and the creation of poetry and prose. As Eva Frantin says: \"It was true poetic love on the same string of poets tuned to each other, where we had a creative influence on each other.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva and Karl were undoubtedly connected by their family history, which led them to visit Israel at the beginning of the Millennium. One branch of each of their ancestors died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That extraordinary relationship lasted for more than a quarter of a century and the imaginary end of it was S\u00fds' passing after a long-lasting serious illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the weekly supplement LUK (Literature, Art, Culture - published by the Union of Czech Writers in the weekly Our Truth) at the end of December 2024, Eva Frantinov\u00e1's poems appeared on the front page Christmas Eve noon <\/em><\/strong>and verses by Karel S\u00fds Double winter<\/em><\/strong>, Adult Christmas Eve<\/em><\/strong> a The first snow<\/em><\/strong>. Here the Frantinov\u00e1-S\u00fds duo symbolically said goodbye to their friends, friends and colleagues on the pages of LUK. From now on we will read them together only in books. As Eva Frantinov\u00e1 told us while sitting with the painter Kola\u0159\u00edk over the still ink-scented Closing hour<\/em>, is now hard at work on a separate volume of his memories of how time and years passed with Karel S\u00fds, with his fingers intertwined in a living cupcake. The book will be called On the rebound<\/em> and will be illustrated with a series of period photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In parallel, a book with the working title Karel S\u00fds and us<\/em>, where thirty people from our cultural life confess their friendship and cooperation with Karel. Including Vojt\u011bch Kola\u0159\u00edk, who was for many years S\u00fdsa's court illustrator for many of his books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eva Frantinov\u00e1 is courting the painter Vojt\u011bch Kola\u0159\u00edk for another collaboration.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Curriculum vitae<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva Frantinov\u00e1 (born 4 September 1956 in Prague) has been publishing in magazines since 1975. Among others. Tvorba, Liter\u00e1rn\u00ed m\u011bs\u00ed\u010dn\u00edk, Obrys-Kmen, Host, Salon Pr\u00e1va, Divok\u00e9 v\u00edno na internetu. She made her book debut in the publishing house of the Czech Republic. Mlad\u00e1 Fronta in 1979 with a collection of poetry Night without shoulders<\/em>. He lives and works in Prague. She has published two dozen collections of poetry, the most recent being Srdcov\u00e9 pleso. She has written fifteen books of prose, among them. Prague <\/em>double-stranded, P<\/em>From lid <\/em>or Smooth and inverted<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also certainly not without interest that Eva Frantinov\u00e1 loves classical music. In 1970-1977 she studied violin at the State Conservatory, which she still does today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

gnews.cz - Ivan \u010cern\u00fd<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHOTO - Ji\u0159\u00ed Vlastn\u00edk<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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