Vladimír Dostál

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Vladimír Dostál (born October 2, 1930 in Česká Skalice , † January 19, 1975 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak literary historian, literary critic and translator.

Life

After graduating from high school in Jaroměř (1949), Vladimír Dostál studied Czech and philosophy at the Charles University in Prague . During his studies he also completed a scholarship stay in Moscow, he finished his studies in 1963. He then worked at the Maxim Gorki Literature Institute in Moscow, from 1957 he worked as deputy head of the chair for the theory and history of literature at the Political College of the Central Committee of the CPC (Party College ) in Prague. From 1967 he worked at the Institute for Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as head of department for literary theory.

As a literary historian and theorist, Dostál ceaselessly polemicized with representatives of structuralism and has positioned himself as a staunch supporter of socialist realism . Thematically, he dealt with the interwar period , in particular with the Czech literary avant-garde , with Marxist criticism and aesthetics and with Soviet literature.

Publications (selection)

  • Hálek sociální , Československý spisovatel, Prague 1951
  • Slovo a čin , profile, Ostrava 1972
  • Směr Wolker , Mladá Fronta, Prague 1975
  • V tomto znamení , Melantrich, Prague 1975
  • S realismem na křižovatce , Československý spisovatel, Prague 1975 (anthology with own essays on the subject of socialist realism)

Vladimír Dostál has published in numerous magazines such as Kulturní politika, Literární noviny, Tvorba, Nový život, Kultura, Kulturní tvorba, Česká literatura, Estetika, Květen, Impuls, Nová mysl, Praha-Moskva, Tribuna, Romboid, and also Inostrannaja literatura and Znamja (both Moscow).

source

  • Vladimír Dostál, curriculum vitae in: Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (Lexicon of Czech literature after 1945), ed. from the Ústav pro českou literaturu (Institute for Czech Literature) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, online edition at: slovnikceskeliteratury.cz / ...

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SURNAME Dostál, Vladimír
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pleva, Dušan (pseudonym); Jesenius (pseudonym); Hampl, Jiří (pseudonym); Melichar, Ondřej (pseudonym); Pastýř, Přemysl (pseudonym); Staněk, Vratislav (pseudonym); Vacková, Zora (pseudonym); ál (pseudonym); Type (pseudonym); d (pseudonym); dl (pseudonym); dnp (pseudonym); DP (pseudonym); dp (pseudonym); dpl (pseudonym); ds (pseudonym); dt (pseudonym); ir (pseudonym); irs; IU (pseudonym); OM (pseudonym); omel (pseudonym); oml (pseudonym); otl (pseudonym); past (pseudonym); rd (pseudonym); rk (pseudonym); rl (pseudonym); rtl (pseudonym); st (pseudonym); vd (pseudonym); VD (pseudonym); vo (pseudonym); V. east. (Pseudonym); V. East. (Pseudonym); vrd. (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak literary historian, literary critic and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Česká Skalice
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1975
Place of death Prague