Jakub Deml
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Jakub Deml (August 20, 1878 - February 10, 1961) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer.
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[edit] Life
Deml was born in Tasov near Třebíč, then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic. Between 1902-1909 he was a Catholic priest, suspended in 1912. He then became one of the most important Czech authors of 1920s and 1930s. Publishing of his books was prohibited after the communist coup in 1948. Deml died in Třebíč.
[edit] Main works
- Notantur lumina, 1907, 1917 [First Lights]
- Hrad smrti [Castle of Death], 1912
- Moji přátelé [My friends], 1913
- Tanec smrti [Dance of Death], 1914
- Miriam, 1916
- Šlépěje, so-called 'One-Man-Review', Deml's own periodical with essays, poems, diary notes, letters, pamphlets, tractates etc., published between 1917 and 1941 in 26 volumes.
- Zapomenuté světlo [Forgotten Light], published 1934 and confiscated by censors for 'obscenous moments' - Roman Jakobson considered it the greatest prose work of 1930s. It has not been translated to English yet. It was made into a film by Vladimír Michálek in 1996.
- Matylka, 1937
- Podzimní sen [Autumn Dream], written 1951, published in London 1984, first home edition Prague 1992
[edit] Literature
- Alexander Wöll: Jakub Deml. Leben und Werk (1878-1961). Eine Studie zur mitteleuropäischen Literatur. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2006 (in German with Czech quotations) ISBN-10 3-412-30005-5 and ISBN 978-3-412-30005-0
