Václav Hladík
Václav Hladík (August 22, 1868 in
Czech
novelist, journalist and translator. Being prolific and somewhat popular in his time, his name and works later fell into obscurity.
Life
Hladík studied at a
Živnostenská bank, he started to study at a business academy in Prague. In 1891 he became editor in newspaper Národní politika. Between 1899 - 1906 Hladík was the editor-in-chief of Czech literary magazine Lumír
and in this role he frequently travelled to France, England, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In 1908 he was awarded by the Presidential Gold Medal for promoting French-Czech cultural relations.
Literary work
Hladík was influenced by the French naturalism. His novels attempted to portray life of contemporary upper classes of the Czech society. As a translator he concentrated mainly on Alphonse Daudet and Guy de Maupassant.
Publications
- Z lepší společnosti(1892)
- Z pražského ovzduší (1894)
- Třetí láska (novel, 1895)
- Ze samotě a společnosti (three modern histories, travel sketches, 1899)
- Samoty
- Trest (novel, 1901)
- Vášeň a síla (novel, 1902)
- Závrať (drama, 1902, premiered in the same year at the National Theater in Prague)
- Evžen Voldán (two-part novel, 1905)
- Valentinovy ženy (1906)
- Barevné skizzy a malé povídky, 1891-1905 (short stories, 1906)
- Vlnobití (short stories, 1908)
- O současné Francii (letters from 1894 to 1907 travels in France, 1909)
- Dobyvatelé
Trivia
Hladík's name possibly inspired Jorge Luis Borges for the main character of the story The Secret Miracle (see the article for details).
References
- Collection of Hladík's correspondence, manuscripts and printed works is kept by the Museum of Czech Literature (Hladík's page).
External links
- Hladík's obituary in Zlatá Praha, No. 34, page 406, vol. XXX, 1913.
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