TRA TRADIZIONE EROTICA E SURREALISMO: «EROTICKÁ REVUE», UNA RIVISTA SUL LIMITARE

«Erotická revue» is a magazine created and published by Jindřich Štyrský (from 1931 to 1933). It is not a “traditional” erotic magazine, but it is not entirely an avant-garde project either. Štyrský’s magazine works with classical erotic tradition and surrealism, introducing both into the space of the Czech avant-garde. My aim is to propose the interpretation of «Erotická revue» as a response by the Czech surrealist to the necessary acquisition of “high” literature of desire, absent in the Czech literary tradition, to be able to implement an organic surrealistic reading of sexuality.