Dav (journal)
Dav (based on the initials of the first names of: , and Vladimír Clementis) was a leftist journal published between 1924 and 1937 with intervals in Prague and then in Bratislava by the group .[1] The journal featured illustrations by Frans Masereel, George Grosz, Marc Chagall and others. It had a Marxist stance.[1] A reprint edition came out in 1965.
DAV included important Slovak writers, poets and cultural workers, scientists and philosophers, politicians and lawyers, literary critics and graphic designers and visual artists like Ladislav Novomeský, Ján Poničan, Peter Jilemnický, Andrej Bagar, , , Fraňo Kráľ, , , Gustáv Husák, Vladimir Clementis, , , , Ľudovít Fulla, Mikuláš Galanda and others. Revue was also a mediator of books by socialist writers (especially poets) like Ján Rob Poničan (Som, Dva svety), Jiří Wolker (Večer, Sborník proletárskych básní), Laco Novomeský (Nedeľa) and others. The DAV mediated translations of world literature and reviews of works by authors such as H. Barbusse, T. Mann, G. B. Shaw, F. Nansen, J. London, U. Sinclair, and others. Czech writers such as Marie Majerová, Zdeněk Nejedlý, Julius Fučík, Ivan Olbracht, and even the Russian writer Ilya Ehrenburg have also published in DAV. After the outbreak of the economic crisis in the 1930s, the authors of the DAV mediated demonstrations, protests and all popular actions against the government in order to point out the contradictions of interwar Czechoslovakia.
The concept of DAV magazine connected the political line on the one hand, and the avant-garde aesthetic line on the other hand. DAV supported internationalism on the one hand, and too equality between Slovaks and Czechs (in the first period they stood in radical opposition to conservatism; later they found their own concept of national continuity with the social progressive movements of the past). The DAV actively reflected on the tragic events in Košúty (May 1931), where protesters were shot and killed during a workers' strike. DAV dedicated to this event the all issue of the journal and organized the Manifesto of Slovak Writers (they were also signed by , J. G. Tajovský, M. Urban, and ). Clementis wrote letters to important writers like Romain Rolland and Maxim Gorky). DAV members also wrote about the conflicts in Polomka or about the killing of a worker on the construction of the Červená Skala - Margecany railway.
The DAV played an important role in shaping 1. philosophical and political ideas in Slovakia; 2. Slovak left-wing politics and 3. in establishing modernist tendencies in Slovak visual art and literature. [2]
References[]
- ^ a b Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 90-272-3455-8.
- ^ Lukáš PERNÝ. "DAV (The Crowd) – Slovak left-wing avant-garde group of interwar period". Academia.edu. Academia Letters.
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