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Vladimir Holan
(September 16, 1905 ? March 31, 1980) was a
Czech
poet.
Vladimir Holan was born in 1905
[1]
in
Prague
. He got his high-school certificate in 1926
[2]
and started to study law. However, he was not much interested in it and left the university quickly. He worked in an office and after some years abandoned it because of ill health.
In 1926 Holan published his first book
[3]
of poetry named
Blouznivy v?ji?
(
A Thoughtful Fan
). The poet himself was not much pleased with the book. In 1930 he published another book which was more successful, named
Triumf smrti
(
The Triumph of Death
). Many other books followed that. The most important work by Holan is
Noc s Hamletem
(
A night with Hamlet
). Holan wrote poems till 1977 when his only daughter died. After it he wrote nothing more. Holan was awarded many times and nominated for
Nobel prize
. The poet died in Prague in 1980. He was buried at Ol?any Cemetery in Prague.
Holan's poems are different and usually regarded as difficult.
[4]
The poems are full of symbols and images that can be understood in different ways. He used classical verse forms and free verse as well. He is also known to have employed
alliteration
and
puns
.
[5]
Holan was also a translator. He translated European literature into Czech.
- Uderem tepny. Sbornik ze semina?e k interpretaci basnickeho dila Vladimira Holana
, Edited by Vladimir Justl, Viola, Praha 1986
- ↑
"Vladimir Holan"
(in Czech). databazeknih.cz
. Retrieved
23 October
2016
.
- ↑
"Vladimir HOLAN"
(in Czech). slovnik ceske literatury
. Retrieved
23 October
2016
.
- ↑
"Vladimir Holan: Gesammelte Werke. Deutsch-tschechische Ausgabe"
(in German). Heidelberger Forum Edition. Archived from
the original
on 15 August 2020
. Retrieved
23 October
2016
.
- ↑
Partridge, James.
"Book Review: A Night with Hamlet"
. Central Europe Review. Archived from
the original
on 22 February 2017
. Retrieved
23 October
2016
.
- ↑
Wiktor J. Darasz, Harmonia wokaliczna w poezji Vladimira Holana. ?Almanach Czeski”, 2006, p. 55?58 (in Polish); Luka? Neumann, Od vanuti po zah?moti ? hlaskova instrumentace v poezii Vladimira Holana, Bohemistyka X, 2010, nr 4, p. 249?273, ISSN 1642?9893 (in Czech).
- James Partridge,
The Narrative Poetry of Vladimir Holan, 1939-1955
, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007.
- Jozef Waczkow, Vladimir Hola [in:] Literatury zachodniosłowia?skie czasu przełomow 1890-1990, Vol. 2, Katowice 1999 (in Polish).