František Halas - Bez legend
František Halas - Bez legend / Frantishek Halas - Without legend
Publisher: Naše vojsko | 1977 | ISBN: N/A | Czech | PDF | 218 pages | 54,53 Mb
Publisher: Naše vojsko | 1977 | ISBN: N/A | Czech | PDF | 218 pages | 54,53 Mb
Memoirs of czech soldier of czechoslovak legions and after war member of Czechoslovak communist party.
František Halas is one of the most important representatives of Czech lyric poetry of the twentieth century. He was a poet, translator, essay writer concentrating on literature and art and a journalist, writing on cultural matters. His name became identified with the intensive and genuine search for a poetic form that would encapsulate the tragic and absurd situation of the individual in modern, socially stratified society. In times of difficulty, he did not hesitate to speak out in defence of democratic and humanist principles in the name of the entire Czech nation. He was born in Moravia to a working class family of poor textile workers. His father František Halas senior (1880 - 1960) came from a large family of weavers. During Austrian rule and also during the first Czechoslovak republic, as an official representative of the workers, he was prosecuted and sent to prison. He was also a writer. His fictional memoirs were published in three volumes: Kemka in 1950, Bez legend (No Myth) in 1958 and Máje a prosince (May and December) in 1959.