Ivan Blatny (1982)

The Czech poet Ivan Blatny who fled from Communist Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s, believed to have died in the 1950s, rediscovered in an English mental asylum 1980, explains how he came to choose a "One Flew Over The Cockoo's Nest"-like existence, continuing to write surrealist poetry thought to be nonsense until a Czech-speaking English nurse reading the poems contacted scholars, creating a sensation in the world of letters.