Václav Hrabě
Václav Hrabě ( born June 13, 1940 in Pribram, † March 5, 1965 in Prague) was Czech poet, prose writer and a representative of the so-called Beat Generation.
The son of a railway worker lived in his youth in Lochovice near Beroun. The middle school he attended in Hořovice. After graduation in 1957, he studied the Czech language and history at the Pedagogical University in Prague. In 1961 he joined the military service. After his return he often changed jobs. Only in the fall of 1964 he accepted the position of a teacher.
His works are strongly influenced by the development of jazz, blues and the birth of the beats in the sixties. Hrabě even played several instruments, including the clarinet and saxophone. His meeting with Allen Ginsberg, he wrote down as an interview in 1965. In addition to poetry and minor prose works he wrote probably a play, which one but never found.
His first work appeared in 1962 in the Journal of the Charles University in Prague and in the army journal notebook ( Zápisník ). Some works have been published in faces ( Tváře ).
From 1965 to 1967, took his poems in pretty small theater ( docela malé Divadlo ) in Litvinov as the basis for the poetic band-stop time ( published in 1967 ). Some poems were set to music also, so ( Tonu Pár ), for example, on the record a few notes of Vladimír Mišík.
Works
- Horečka - only preserved history
- Stop -time, 1969
- Blues v modré a blanc, 1977
- Korunovační blues, 1981
- The Black nebe nad městem, 1985
- Blues per bláznivou holku, 1991
- Blues, 1995
- Margot - theater piece, lost the original has been
Published in German language
- Litany of ending morning
See also: List of Czech writers
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