1926. Edition Mladi autori No. 13, 1926. F. Svoboda Praha. Edited by A. C. Nor. 8˚ (21 x 14.5 cm), 108 (4) pp. Original paperback. Cover design and 7 full-page original linocuts by Václav Kovárna, brother of the author František Kovárna. Printed on laid paper. Reference: Literature Musuem Prague https://arl.pamatniknarodnihopisemnictvi.cz/arl-pnp/en/detail-pnp_us_cat-117081-Bojacni-a-rvac/
František Kovárna (1905-1952) was an art theorist, critic and essayist. Apart from this debut work, illustrated with the cubo-expressionist linocuts of his brother Václav, he wrote the Dadaist book ‘1+1=3’ (1929), whose subtitle was ‘for creativity and against reason’. Kovárna was the editor of numerous magazines, such as Nové smery (New Directions) and Kritický mesicník (The Critical Month), and held several professorships at Charles University in Prague. As a staunch advocate of free public discourse, he became an enemy of the Communist Party and was expelled from all his professional positions in 1948, whereupon he emigrated to Germany and eventually to the United States. Kovárna was sentenced to death in absentia by the Gottwald regime and was only posthumously rehabilitated in 1993.
