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Josef JedlickaJosef Jedlicka (1927 - 1990) was a Bohemian / Czech writer. Jedlicka studied estetics and ethnography at Prague University, but after the communist revolution in 1948 he was kicked out of university for being an anticommunist. He then worked in various professions - as laborer, teacher, TV assistant, and tutor among them. After 1953 he moved to Litvinov, an industrial town in northern Bohemia. Being a anticommunist, he was prohibited from publishing anything, but he wrote novels and short stories secretly and read them in circle of his close friends, among them Jan Zabrana, Bohumil Hrabal and other prohibited great writers of the time. In 1966, after 18 years of prohibition, Jedlicka was allowed to publish an experimental novel Kde zivot nas je v puli se svou pouti (In The Midway Of This Our Mortal Life), written in early 1950s; parts of this book were censored in this edition by the communist censors, the complete version would be published in 1994 after fall of communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Nevertheless the book, with parts censored, caused scandal and was said to be antisocialist and once again Jedlicka was prohibited from publishing. Only in 1968, was Jedlicka allowed to publish few essays about Kafka and Caadajev in literature magazines. After the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Jedlicka was exiled to West Germany. He eventually lived in Munich, where he worked as editor and commentator for Radio Free Europe during 1970s and 1980s. Work - Kde zivot nas je v puli se svou pouti (In The Midway Of This Our Mortal Life) written ca 1953, published (censored) Prague 1966, complete edition Prague 1994; one of greatest novels of 1950s)
- Krev neni voda (Blood Is No Water), novel (Prague 1991, German translation DVB 2004)
- Ceske typy (Bohemian Types), essays about Bohemians and their culture, (Prague 1992)
- Rozptyleno v prostoru a case (Splittered Through Space and Time), (Brno 2000), essays on literature, mainly written for Radio Free Europe, Munich
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