Ricerc@Sapienza

Zbyněk Havlíček, poet and psychologist, wrote his first verses during the Second World War, when he joined a Prague surrealist group. The paper deals with Zbyněk Havlíček’s poem I live my life and write a poem (1961) and his poetics of poetry as an antagonist to the schizophrenia of totalitarian society; Prague is the stage on which the poet’s oniric and lucid walk occurs.