Edition 69: Two Texts of the Czech Avant-Garde

Tato kniha byla vydána českým nakladatelstvím Twisted Spoon Press, které sídlí v Praze a vydává díla českých a slovanských autorů v anglickém jazyce. Oficiální anotace nakladatele: Launched in 1931 by Jindřich Štyrský, the series Edition 69 comprised six volumes of erotic literature and illustration that followed the path marked out by Louis Aragon's Irene's Cunt and Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye. Given the censorship laws of the day, the Edition 69 series was not for sale, and print runs numbered no more than 200. This volume brings together English translations of the two most important texts in the series: Nezval's “Sexual Nocturne” and Štyrský's “Emilie Come to Me in a Dream,” supplemented by the original essay from psychoanalyst Bohuslav Brouk, a fellow founding member of The Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia. Edition 69 represented a sustained attempt by the interwar Czech avant-garde to investigate the taboos of bourgeois culture.