Here are posts labelled "Czech Republic" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Tom Stoppard
- Birth: July 3, 1937, Zlin, Czech Republic
- Language: English
- Who he is: British playwright; Arcadia; The Coast of Utopia; Every Good Boy Deserves Favour; Professional Foul; The Real Thing; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Milan Kundera
- Birth: April 1, 1929, Brno, Czech Republic
- Death: July 11, 2023, Paris, France
- Language: French
- Who he is: Czech-born French writer; The Joke; The Book of Laughter and Forgetting; The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Karel Capek
- Birth: January 9, 1890, Malé Svatoňovice, Czech Republic
- Death: December 25, 1938, Prague, Czech Republic
- Language: Czech
- Who he was: Czech playwright and novelist; novel War with the Newts; play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter.
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Franz Kafka
- Birth: July 3, 1883, Prague, Czech Republic
- Death: June 3, 1924, Klosterneuburg, Austria
- Language: German
- Who he was: German-speaking Austro-Hungarian novelist and short story writer; Der Process (The Trial); Das Schloss (The Castle); "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"); Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist)
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); LRP; Bloom; GC
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
- Known as: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Birth: December 4, 1875, Prague, Czech Republic
- Death: December 29, 1926, Montreux, Switzerland
- Language: German
- Who he was: Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist; poetry collections Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies) and Die Sonette an Orpheus (Sonnets to Orpheus); novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge); and a collection of Letters to a Young Poet
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Gustav Mahler
- Birth: July 7, 1860, Kaliště, Czech Republic
- Death: May 18, 1911, Vienna, Austria
- Language: German
- Who he was: Austrian composer; Das Lied von der Erde; nine complete symphonies
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Gregor Mendel
- Birth: July 20, 1822, Hynčice, Czech Republic
- Death: January 6, 1884, Brno, Czech Republic
- Language: German
- Who he was: Austro-German monk and scientist; "Experiments on Plant Hybridization"
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Vaclav Havel
- Birth: October 5, 1936, Prague, Czech Republic
- Death: December 18, 2011, Vlcice, Czech Republic
- Language: Czech
- Who he was: Czech writer, philosopher, political dissident, and statesman who wrote The Garden Party and The Memorandum
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Sigmund Freud
- Birth: May 6, 1856, Příbor, Czech Republic
- Death: September 23, 1939, Hampstead, UK
- Language: German
- Who he was: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis known for The Interpretation of Dreams; Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Totem and Taboo; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; The Ego and the Id; The Future of an Illusion; Civilization and Its Discontents; Moses and Monotheism
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); LRP; GC
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
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Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
Just the Facts:
- Name: Antonin Dvorak
- Birth: September 8, 1841, Nelahozeves, Czech Republic
- Death: May 1, 1904, Prague, Czech Republic
- Languages: Czech, German
- Who he was: Czech composer of The New World Symphony; Slavonic Dance No. 2
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
