Josef Hora Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 13 pages of information about the life of Josef Hora.

Josef Hora Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 13 pages of information about the life of Josef Hora.
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Josef Hora, one of the most important figures in twentieth-century Czech literature, is famous mainly as a poet, but he also won recognition as a prose writer; literary critic; translator from Russian, German, and south Slavic languages; and literary and political publicist. His work created a link with Czech prewar modernism, closely associated with the then-fashionable artistic trends of "vitalism," extolling the exuberance of human life, and "civilism," paying homage to the arrival of a modern, technological civilization. Nevertheless, Hora never wrote purely "vitalist" or "civilist" poetry. His work is strongly influenced by the socialist movements of the 1920s and the 1930s; uncommonly, for this type of poetry, Hora emphasizes the ethics of revolutionary activity in his "proletarian" poems. Hora was never a member of any literary group, nor was he an adherent of any poetic school.

Josef Hora was born on 8 July 1891 in Dobfis near...

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