Bohuslav Reynek

One of the most important Bohemian (Czech) poets, writers and translators of 20th century. B. 1892 at Petrkov Manor, Vysocina (=Bohemian Highland), d. 1971 at Petrkov Manor. Studied at Grammar School in Jihlava (Iglau), Bohemia. After short studies at Prague University, he left Prague for Petrkov. In early 1920s he married French poet Susanne Renaud. His poems are quite meditative and inspired by Bohemian Landscape, rural life at manor and deep christian humanism. Reynek was also great graphic and excellent translator of French and German. After communist revolution of 1948, Reynek's manor was confiscated and devastated, his books were prohibited and those of public libraries liquidated because of Reynek's christian faith. He died poor and prohibited, but also became poetry hero of young Czech poets of 1960s and 1970s. His work was published in exile and after 1989, critical and complete edition of his poems was published.

Work

• Zizne (1921), poems
• Rybi supiny (1922), poems in prose
• Had na snehu (1924), poems in prose
• Rty a zuby (1925), poems
• Setba samot (1936), poems
• Pieta (1940), poems
• Podzimni motyli (1946), poems

posthumously: illegal editions – samizdat (1978), in exile (Munich 1980), many editions after 1989

External links

• Photos of Reynek and his art-work (Recommended) [[1]]

• Page about Reynek in French [[2]]

• Poems in Anthology Vrh kridel

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• Few Reynek's poems [[4]]

• Hungarian page about Reynek [[5]]

• Reynek-Renaud Society, Grenoble, France [[6]]

• Photos of Petrkov House [[7]]

• Bohuslav Reynek School in Lipa – page with biography, photographs and graphics [[8]]

• Few English translations of Reynek's poems [[9]]