- Jiří Mahen
Jiří Mahen (
December 12 ,1882 –May 22 ,1939 ) was a Czechnovelist ,playwright andessayist .Life
He was born Antonín
Vančura , inČáslav , to an old noble family of theBrethren faith. In his grammar-school years he became ananarchist . He later studiedlinguistics of the Czech and German languages atPrague University . After 1910, he worked as a journalist for "Lidové noviny ", one of the leading Czech newspapers. In the 1920s, he became the director of Brno Municipal Library. In 1939, due to depression followingHitler 's occupation ofCzechoslovakia , he committedsuicide on May 22 inBrno ."Mahenova knihovna" (Mahen´s Library, Brno City Library) is named after Jiří Mahen.
Jiří Mahen was the
cousin of the novelist Vladislav Vančura.Work
His most important texts are the novels "Kamarádi svobody" (Friends of Freedom) and "Měsíc" (The Moon), a fantastic novel involving
poetism , thetheatre plays "Mrtvé moře" (Dead sea), written in 1917, "Jánošík" (Janosik), in 1910, and "Generace" (Generation), in 1921. He was the author of manyessay books of which "Rybářská knížka" (Fishermen's Book) written in 1921 is the most well-known.References
*Bohuš Balajka: "Přehledné dějiny literatury II." Prague: Fortuna, 2005. ISBN 80-7168-781-2
See also
*
List of Czech writers
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