- Jaroslav Durych
Jaroslav Durych (
December 2 ,1886 ,Hradec Králové –April 7 ,1962 ,Prague ) was a Czech prose writer, poet, playwright, journalist, and militarysurgeon . Prior to World War II, perhaps the only Czech author besideKarel Čapek with works translated into more than one foreign language.Fact|date=January 2008His major prose masterworks are "Bloudění" (1929), a novel from the time of the
Thirty Years' War (English translation with title"The Descent of the Idol" appeared in New York in 1936) and "Služebníci neužiteční" of which only a first part could be published in Czechoslovakia because after the 1948 Communist putsch, Durych was silenced (full ed. in 4 vols. Rome, 1969).Durych's Catholic views were often at odds with those of the prevailing intellectual forces in the first Czechoslovak Republic, notably his positive evaluation of the internal developments in Bohemia and baroque culture that followed the
Battle of White Mountain . Durych felt that the loss suffered there by Friedrich von Pfalz (Frederick V, Elector Palatine ) saved Bohemia from becoming a part of Germany.References
* Novák, Arne. "Přehledné dějiny literatury české." Olomouc, Promberger, 1939.
See also
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List of Czech writers
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