Jaroslav Havlíček
Jaroslav Havlíček (born February 3, 1896 in Jilemnice , † April 7, 1943 in Prague ) was a Czech writer .
Life
After attending secondary school in Jičín , he graduated from the Commercial Academy in Chrudim and then began studying at the Czech Technical University in Prague . In 1915 he took part in the First World War as a one-year volunteer . He fought in Russia , Italy and in 1919 in Slovakia . He then worked as an employee and continued studying at the university.
He published his stories in various magazines.
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His writing influenced Bible readers and spiritualists, his novels mostly set in small towns in the 19th and 20th centuries. Havlíček was a member of Group 42 .
The Ostberliner Verlag Rütten & Loening published two novels in German translation :
The kerosene lamp was set in the small town of Jilemnice in the Giant Mountains between 1870 and 1904 . The heroine is the extroverted but unsightly Štěpka, daughter of the builder Kilián. When she threatens to become an old maid, she agrees to marry her useless cousin Pavel Malina, a farewell captain of the Austro-Hungarian army. She realizes too late that her husband is syphilitic, cannot fulfill her desire to have children and she has only married in order to use her trousseau to restore the family estate, which he has almost ruined. The book was filmed.
The Invisible Man (also made into a film): A rich family falls apart. The main character is an engineer who marries the heiress of the factory. After the marriage he discovers that there is a crazy uncle living in their house who believes he is invisible. This gradually destroys the marriage until the woman herself goes mad.
Works
- Skleněný vrch - a story based on which the film Barbora Hlavsová was shot in 1942
- Neopatrné panny - 1941, written 1929–1932
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Vyprahlé touhy - 1935
- revised as: Petrolejové lampy - 1944, made into a film; German: Petroleum lamps , Berlin 1983
- Neviditelný - 1937, made into a film; German: The Invisible Man , Berlin 1977
- Ta třetí - 1939, made into a film
- Helimadoe - 1940, made into a film
- Synáček - 1942
- Zánik městečka Olšiny - 1944
- Zázrak flamendrů - 1964
- Prodavač času - 1968
- Hodinky pana Balabána - 1986
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Jaroslav Havlíček in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Literature by and about Jaroslav Havlíček in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Havlíček, Jaroslav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Havlicek, Jaroslav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jilemnice |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1943 |
| Place of death | Prague |