Božena Benešová
Božena Benešová , née Božena Zapletalová , (born November 30, 1873 in Neutitschein , † April 8, 1936 in Prague ) was a Czech writer. She spent most of her life in Uherské Hradiště and Napajedla , where she got married. In 1908 she moved to Prague. She represented a psychological prose that met bourgeois (family) life with skepticism and irony. Your characters struggle with loneliness and selfishness. Most of them are young people from the city. The works of Růžena Svobodová had a great influence on Benešová's work . In addition to prose works, she also published a volume of poetry.
Novels
- Člověk , 1919-1920.
- Tiché dívky , 1922.
- Úder , 1926.
- Podzemní plameny , 1929.
- Tragická duha , 1933 (the last three trilogies about the time of the First World War ).
- Don Pablo, Don Pedro a Věra Lukášová , 1936; German: Don Pablo, Don Pedro and the girl Vera , Prague 1961 ( online (Czech) PDF, 74 p., 188 kB; autobiographical features; filmed in 1939 under the title Věra Lukášová by Emil František Burian )
literature
- Marie Pujmanová: Božena Benešová , Prague 1935.
- J. Ochsner: The psychological novel with Božena Benešová , dissertation Prague 1939.
- Dobrava Moldanová: Božena Benešová , Brno 1976.
- Vladimír Forst u. a .: Lexicon české literatury: osobnosti, díla, instituce . Volume 1, A-G. Academia, Prague 1985, ISBN 80-200-0797-0 .
- Susanne Gretter and Luise F. Pusch (eds.): Famous women. 300 portraits , Leipzig, Ffm (Insel) 2001, therein page 37 Božena Benešová
- Robert B. Pynsent: Czech Feminist Anti-Semitism: The Case of Bozena Benešová , in: Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer (Eds.): History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe , Volume IV Types and Sterotypes , 2010, Pp. 344-366.
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Božena Benešová in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Božena Benešová in the catalog of the German National Library
- Božena Benešová in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benešová, Božena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zapletalová, Božena (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech poet, writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neutitschein |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1936 |
| Place of death | Prague |