Josef HoleÄek (writer)
Josef Holeček ( born February 27, 1853 in Stožice at Vodňany; † March 6, 1929 ) was Czech regional writer, representative of realism and the country prose, translator and journalist.
After his studies in Pisek, České Budějovice and Tábor, he worked in Zagreb as an educator. In 1875, he wrote as a war correspondent for the people sheet ( Národní listy ). As an avid Slawist he visited in subsequent years, Russia, Asia Minor and Constantinople Opel.
Works
He was a typical writer of rural literature. He described images perfect villages where evil can be combated by love among men.
- Cerna Hora
- Cerna Hora v míru
- Za Svobodu
- Junácké kresby černohorské
- Zájezd na Rus
- Ruskočeské Kapitoly
- Podejme ruku Slovákům! - In this book he attempts to settle the dispute between the Czech and Slovak cultures. An experiment which found many imitators.
- Naši - 10 -ti dílná kronika - (12 books) published from 1897 to 1930, he describes life in the village at the beginning of the 19th century..
- Jak u nás lidé žijou a umírají - In this work, he begins with an idyllic image of childhood that is lost over the years. Not only in this work, the person Bauer is the symbol of honesty and goodness, mental and physical strength for him.
- Frantík a Bartoňs - memories of childhood, to life in the village.
- Tragédie Julia Grégra
- Pero
Translations
- Songs from Herzegovina ( písně hercegovské )
- Serbian national epic ( Srbská národní Epika )
- Kalevala - the Finnish national epic
Biography
- E. Chalupný: Dílo Josefa Holečka. Prague 1926
See also: List of Czech writers
- Journalist (Czech Republic)
- Author
- Literature (19th century)
- Literature ( 20th century)
- Literature (Czech)
- Poetry
- Translator
- Novel, epic
- Newspaper journalist
- Czechoslovak
- Person (Kingdom of Bohemia)
- Born in 1853
- Died in 1929
- Man