Czech and Slovak Avant-garde Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s

My research will explore the themes, strategies and preoccupations of the generation of Czech and Slovak Avant-garde fiction writers that emerged following the Great War and Czechoslovak independence in 1918.
Though representing disparate ideological positions, these writers are united in a search for a new language with which to express new ideas. I shall examine various manifestations of this search in a detailed survey chapter, and in chapters devoted to two of the best-known, most productive and popular members of this generation, the pro-revolutionary Vancura and the Catholic Durych.