Fabry, Rudolf (1915–1982) Works   hu sk

Biography

After matriculating from the gymnasium in Trnava in 1933 he studied drawing and geography at the Czech Technical Institute in Prague. After completing his studies in 1937 he returned to Slovakia and settled permanently in Bratislava. For some years he worked as a clerk. From 1947 until his retirement in 1975 he worked as a journalist in a number of periodicals: Práca, Nedeľa, Život, Film a divadlo, Kultúrny život, as chief editor of Expres and Výtvarný život, and as a freelance writer.

Rudolf Fabry`s poetic beginnings date back to the first half of the Thirties when he published in the magazines Svojeť and Postup. In 1933 seven of his poems appeared in the Anthology of Slovak Poetry. His stay in Prague had a great influence on his subsequent development where the poetry of the European avant-garde was made available in Czech translation, chiefly surrealism, which at that time had penetrated Czech poetry (V. Nezval and K. Teige). Fabry`s first work Severed Hands is considered as the beginning of surrealism in Slovak literature. The creative methods and manner of constructing a poetic image went sharply against the era`s poetic conventions relying on a new symbolist canon, and in such proportions that Fabry`s poetry was regarded as a provocation. The poet employed a method of free association and spontaneous free imagery on the principles of the so-called spastic beauty. The inclination towards a new artistic vision of reality and subsequent parting from old poetical methods appeared as specific aesthetic styles such as when crossing through the title PrologueFair Play. Thus the young poet became a kind of spiritual father of surrealism although the "overrealistic" group of poets (nadrealisti) was not formed for another three years.

Poetry:
- Severed Hands (Uťaté ruky, 1935)
- Water Clock Clock of Sand (Vodné hodiny hodiny piesočné, 1938)
- I Is Somebody Else (Ja je niekto iný, 1946)
- Bouquets for This Life (Kytice tomuto životu, 1953)
- Everyone Will Return (Každý sa raz vráti, 1964)
- A Breeze above the Nests of Death (Nad hniezdami smrti vánok, 1969)
- The Unstony Rock the Unrocky Boulder (Skala nekamenná bralo neskalnaté, 1973)
- The Rose Bleeds on the Shield (Na štít ruža krváca, 1977),
- Metamorphosis of Metaphors (Metamorfózy metafor, 1978)
- The collection of poems, Nenogista roze, published in 2011 in Latvien contains also selected poems by him.

Source:
- http://www.litcentrum.sk/en/slovenski-spisovatelia/rudolf-fabry

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