Jakub Deml (August 20, 1878 - February 10, 1961) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer. August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... This article is about the sacrament. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...
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 communistcoup in 1948. Deml died in Třebíč. Třebíč is a city in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic with a populate of approximately 40,000. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the sacrament. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
Šlépěje, so-called 'One-Man-Review', Deml's own periodical with essays, poems, diary notes, letters, pamphlets, tractates etc., published between 1917 and 1941, completely 26 volumes.
Zapomenuté světlo [Forgotten Light], published 1934 and confiscated by moral censors for 'obscenous moments' - considered by Roman Jakobson to be the greatest prose work of 30ties. It has not been translated to English yet. It was made into a film by Vladimír Michálek in 1996.
Podzimní sen [Autumn Dream], written 1951, published in London1984, first home edition Prague1992
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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
Deml`s prolific writing is unusually varied in terms of genres, subject matter and style.
Deml`s last great work was "Podzimni sen" (1984, "Autumn Dream"), written in 1951 after his visit to a communist concentration camp for clergymen.
For some Deml is, first and foremost, a representative of the catholic movement in the Czech literature, whereas others regard him as a forerunner and representative of surrealism, and still others consider him to be an expressionist.
Despite Demls cultured and aesthetically appealing texts, Deml research is currently in a precarious situation: On the one hand, interpretations of single works are far and few between; on the other, a Deml community, the so-called demlovci or Demlologs, has emerged over the years in the Czech Republic.
Deml invented a new genre for himself, the lépeje [footprints], where he furnished a collage-like paste-up by piecing together invoices, newspaper cuttings about his books, letters, and placard texts of official announcements.
Deml increasingly left behind the naturalism of comparing distinct flower elements and instead transported the reader to fantastic, dreamlike, allegorical image worlds with the help of exactly those elements.
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