The Absolute Gravedigger, published in 1937, is in many ways the culmination of Vitězslav Nezval\'s work as an avant-garde poet, combining the Poetism of his earlier work and his turn to Surrealism in the 1930s with his political concerns in the years leading up to World War II.
And while a number of salient political issues emerge from the Surrealist ommatidia, Nezval\'s imagination here is completely free-wheeling an.
It is above all a collection of startling verbal and visual inventiveness.
The Absolute Gravedigger, published in 1937, is in many ways the culmination of Vitězslav Nezval\'s work as an avant-garde poet, combining the Poetism of his earlier work and his turn to Surrealism in the 1930s with his political concerns in the years leading up to World War II
