Ladislav Fuks

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Ladislav Fuks (September 24, 1923 in

Fuks was born in Prague on September 24, 1923, the son of Vaclav Fuks (a police officer) and Marie Frycková Fuksová.

During the communist period, Fuks said he "preferred to choose conciliatoriness and toleration over reckless defiance and courage to fall in the resistance" (raději volil smířlivost a toleranci před bezhlavým vzdorem a odvahou padnout v odporu). Some of his work from the 1970s is strongly linked to the era in which it was created; for example, Návrat z žitného pole (The Return from the Rye Field) is a novel targeted against emigration after the 1948 communist coup. He was also a member of the socialist Union of Czech Writers (Svaz českých spisovatelů). Although he obtained some international recognition, in the last years of his life he was left alone and friendless. He died in 1994 in his Prague apartment in the Dejvice neighborhood, at Národní obrany no. 15.

List of works

• Zámek Kynžvart (Castle Kynžvart) – 1958: A professional study
• Pan Theodor Mundstock (Mr. Theodore Mundstock) -1963: The story of a Prague Jew who is in constant fear of deportation to the concentration camp. He tries to prepare himself—he sleeps on a wooden plank, tortures himself with hunger, and carries heavy things. He also lives through frequent hallucinations and conversations with his own shadow.
• Mí černovlasí bratři (My dark-haired brothers) -1964: The story of a boy who loses all his Jewish friends through the occupation—a collection of short stories, marking their individual fates.
• Variace pro temnou strunu (Variations for a dark string) -1966: The story of the life before the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Germans through the eyes of a small boy. Reality mixes into a blend with ideas from fairy tales, stories and rumors the young boy hears from their family servant.
• Spalovač mrtvol (Literally "The incinerator of corpses" or "The Cremator") -1967: A psychological horror story about a worker in a crematorium, who, through the influence of Nazi propaganda and oriental philosophy, becomes a maniac, and murders his entire family to "cleanse them" by death. It was made into a famous film with Rudolf Hrušínský
  as the main actor, co-written by Fuks.
• Smrt morčete (The Death of a hamster) -1969: A collection of 10 balladic short stories with Jewish motifs.
• Myši Natálie Mooshabrové
  (The mice of Natalia Mooshabr) -1970.
• Příběh kriminálního rady (The tale of a criminal counsel) -1971.
• Oslovení ze tmy (Addressing from the darkness) -1972
• Nebožtíci na bále (The Deceased at a ball) -1972
• Návrat z žitného pole (The return from the rye field) -1974
• Mrtvý v podchodu (March of the dead) -1976
• Pasáček z doliny (The (little) herdsman from the lowland) -1977 *
  • The word herdsman is in the original in the form that would suggest a child)
• Křišťálový pantoflíček (The Crystal slipper) -1978.
• Obraz Martina Blaskowitze (The Picture of Martin Blaskowitz) -1980.
• Vévodkyně a kuchařka (The Duchess and the (female) cook) -1983.
• Cesta do zaslíbené země (Journey to the promised land) -1990
• Moje zrcadlo (My mirror) -1995: Memoirs, published posthumously.

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