LudvÃk VaculÃk
Ludvik Vaculik ( born July 23, 1926 in Brumov ) is a Czech writer.
Life
Vaculik was constructed in 1942-43 at Bata in Zlin to the shoemaker, where he then until 1946, also continue to work. From 1946 to 1951 he studied at the Prague Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
He worked as an educator in homes apprentice, then as an editor at the Czechoslovak Radio. Finally, he began 1965 with the magazine Literární noviny. The literary breakthrough came with the novella The Hatchet (1966 ) that " The Joke, " the most discussed Czech publications of the second half of the 1960s included not only Kundera. Because of its socially - critical remarks at the Fourth Congress of Czech Writers' Union in June 1967, he was expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( KSČ ).
In the Prague Spring, he was unsurpassed by the manifesto of 2000 words, one to be applied to general public analysis of the totalitarian exercise of power. Later he was one of the founders of following the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE ) formed Czech human rights group " Charter 77 ". Vaculik was shadowed as a dissident to turn permanently by state security agencies.
In the 70s he founded the samizdat publishing Edice Petlice (publishing under lock and key ), in which he drove works of banned authors independently. It also appeared daydreams. All days in a year ( Petlice 1981, Toronto, 1983, Brno, 1990), one of his most important works.
Vaculik written after the turn mainly feature articles about daily problems.
Work
Novels, among others:
- The ax ( Sekyra, 1966)
- The guinea pigs ( Morčata, 1970) translated by Alexandra and Gerhard Baum Rucker (1970 Atlantis ). Reprint: diaphanes Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03734-178-0.
Awards
Memberships
- Obec spisovatelů ( Czech Writers' Union )