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Bohuslav Reynek

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187: 28: 244: 115: 198:. What is noteworthy is the delicate way in which religious themes are refracted through images of his immediate surroundings; the poems invest everyday objects and scenes (such as the farm animals, their byres, the rhythms of the working week) with a spiritual luminescence, a bright edge, and this is done so delicately that at no point does it feel imposed. He employs, for the most part, traditional forms, with inventive rhymes. 174:(1929–2014). In 1949 his farmstead was confiscated by the new Communist state (he and his family were allowed to live on in Petrkov), and the publishers that had heretofore published his work were closed down. He died on 28 October 1971 on his farmstead in Petrkov and was buried nearby in Svatý Kříž (part of 215:, Reynek's farmstead was confiscated and devastated, his books were prohibited and those of public libraries liquidated because of Reynek's Christian faith. He died poor with his works banned but became a hero to young Czech poets of the 1960s and 1970s, the most prominent of which were 487: 227:. His work was published in exile and after 1989 a critical edition of his poems was completed and edited by Torst Publishing House, Prague. The French author 502: 351: 389:, trans. Xavier Galmiche (Grenoble: Romarin-les Amis de Suzanne Renaud et Bohuslav Reynek, 1997). See the publishing house Romarin's 507: 135: 48: 201:
Reynek was a graphic artist and a translator of French and German. Among the poets he translated was the German expressionist
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His poems are meditative and inspired by the Czech landscape, rural life in the farmstead and deep Christian
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translating, illustrating and publishing his own poetry. He and Suzanne had two sons, Daniel (1928–2014) and
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trans. Justin Quinn (University of Chicago Press/Charles University Press, 2017).
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Grave of Bohuslav Reynek and his family at the cemetery in Svatý Kříž
309: 195: 143: 205:, and it is clear that he learnt much from Trakl's techniques. 452: 334:(Poetic Works), ed. Marie Chlíbcová (Archa/Petrkov, 2009) 312:(1978), in exile (Munich 1980), many editions after 1989. 158:, he went to Petrkov. In 1926 he married the French poet 134:
Reynek was born on 31 May 1892 in Petrkov (today part of
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Petrkov
Austria-Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Suzanne Renaud
Jiří Reynek

Lípa
gymnasium
Jihlava
French
German
Prague University
Suzanne Renaud
Josef Florian
Stará Říše
Jiří
Havlíčkův Brod

humanism
Georg Trakl
Communist
coup d'état of 1948
Ivan Martin Jirous
Zbyněk Hejda
Ivan Diviš
Sylvie Germain

samizdat
Fish Scales

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