Josef Rauvolf: Jirous and Fuchs – A Cross-border Affinity

Though it seems impossible at first glance, the two poets, one Czech, the other (East) German, had much more in common than might be expected. Not only in their unwillingness to accept any kind of compromise, whether in the totalitarian period or after its fall, or in issues of moral integrity; Ivan M. Jirous and Jürgen Fuchs also shared a similar poetics.