Moderní revue
The Moderní revue was a Czech magazine that was a platform for modern literature. It was founded in October 1894 by Arnošt Procházka and Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic and existed until Procházka's death in 1925. 77 issues were published.
Alignment
The Moderní revue united different currents of modernity. The main focus was on decadence , and the two editors even considered calling the magazine Dekadentní literatura . The Czech writers Josef Svatopluk Machar , Antonín Sova , Viktor Dyk , Otokar Březina , Karel Hlaváček and Stanislav Kostka Neumann as well as the Pole Stanislaw Przybyszewski published in the Moderní revue . The leading figures were the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner as well as the French Poètes maudits , such as Charles Baudelaire , which were also printed. The Moderní revue wrote against the literary establishment, such as the Lumír magazine embodied. The young artists freed literature from its national concerns, from its educational function and from any moral claim, it was about L'art pour l'art and provocation. So they spoke positively about the then scandal author Oscar Wilde .
The Moderní revue not only provided the text itself, but also had a graphic claim. Typography , illustrations and the page design should correspond to the content. This was achieved with modest means, Hlaváček was the magazine's main illustrator alongside his literary work.