Beyond Decadence(English, Paperback, Butler Peter)

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Beyond Decadence(English, Paperback, Butler Peter) is written by Butler Peter and published by Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 8024625717 (ISBN 10) and 9788024625713 (ISBN 13).

Jan Opolsky has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. Through close reading and detailed analysis of Opolsky's prose, however, Peter Butler argues that, far from his reputation as a literary lackey, Opolsky is a master of sustained narrative irony and an accomplished writer in his own right. Beyond Decadence evaluates archival sources and private correspondence between Opolsky and other literary figures, and includes a classified bibliography of Opolsky's work. Butler's introduction, meanwhile, offers an overview of the Czech decadent/symbolist literary and artistic movements, placing them within a larger European perspective. Redeeming a literary artist who has been nearly forgotten in the English-speaking world, Beyond Decadence will be of particular interest to students of Slavic and European literary history.