Jakub Arbes

Jakub Arbes ( born June 12, 1840 in Prague, † April 8, 1914 ) was a Czech journalist and writer.

Life

Arbes came from the Prague Smíchov and visited together with the later writer Julius Zeyer the junior high school. The narrator Jan Neruda was his Czech teachers. Then he began studying art. Arbes worked as a journalist and was 1868 - 1873 editor of the Národní listy. Because of his article, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison, which he from 1873 to 1874 was serving in Ceska Lipa. In the years 1876-1879 was Arbes dramaturge at the theater Divadlo Prozatímní. From 1880 to 1881 he was, together with Aleš the satirical magazine Šotek ( imp ) out. Furthermore Arbes was editor of the magazines Hlas ( The Voice ) and politics.

Works

Arbes revered Jan Neruda, whose example he eventually progressed. The sources of his literary work are, firstly, his penchant for the fantastic literature and horror stories, on the other, his interest in technology and science, and the third his radical socialist setting.

This led to their own literary genre, the Arbes even gave the name Roma net, and it was imitated by others. It is a typical for the Czech literary genre that stands between story and novel, and has kaleidoscopic character. All Roma Nettos Arbes ' play in Prague, often in a spooky scene that is rational and decrypted by the human intellect. There you will find philosophical questions, radical social criticism and motives of an anticipated science fiction.

Arbes sees in his works to the people of a dangerous, mysterious world found that this unravels through his mind. Only in his later novels the author's view is pessimistic, he can feel the illusion of a variability of the world, and describes the failure of individual rebellion dar. The problems of capitalism and industrialization in the Czech lands come to represent.

Roma Nettos

  • The devil on the rack ( Dabel na skřipci ), 1866
  • The gray-eyed demon ( Sivooký démon ), 1873
  • St. Xavier ( Svatý Xavier ), 1873
  • The miraculous Madonna ( Zázračná madona ), 1875
  • The Crucified ( Ukřižovaná ), 1876
  • The brain Newton ( Newtonův Mozek ), 1877 (English version contained in the shadow of the night A hundred years of Czech prose, 1962. , And Czech in time loops fantasy stories, 1981. )
  • Acrobats ( Akrobati ), 1878
  • The Ethiopian lily ( lily Ethiopská ), 1879
  • The great job ( Šílený job), 1879

Novels

  • Candidates of the existence ( Kandidáti existence ), 1878
  • Modern Vampires ( Moderní upíři ), 1879
  • The coating digging ( Štrajchpudlíci ), 1883
  • The Messiah ( Messiah ), 1883
  • The Angel of Peace ( Andel míru ), 1889
  • The Last Days of Mankind ( Poslední dnové lidstva ), 1895
  • Mysterious character ( Záhadné povahy ), 1909
  • A Czech Paganini ( Český Paganini )
  • From the soul of the poet Workshop (Z dílny duševní básníků )
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