Básník. Román o Ivanu Blatném

Built on thirty years of research and many facts that were previously unknown, this novel tells the life of the poet Ivan Blatný (1919–1990). It moves through the literary life of interwar Czechoslovakia and his friendships with Orten, Kainar, Nezval and others, the years of the Nazi Protectorate and the terror after Heydrich's assassination, his fame and then his emigration to England in 1948, after which the regime tried to wipe his name from Czech literary history. It follows the intrigues of the Czech political exile and the work of communist agents abroad, and stays with Blatný in the asylums where he spent most of his forty years in England.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

594 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, United Kingdom, 1919–1990

First published

2014 by Torst

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9788072154722 (original)