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František Gellner

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born

June 19, 1881 in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

died

September 13, 1914

gender

male

genre

Poetry, Short Stories

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František Gellner was a Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist. His first poems are full of irony in Heinrich Heine's style. In 1901 he published his first collection called Po nás ať přijde potopa! (After Us Let the Floods Come!) in which he used especially sexual motifs without any embellishments. The next collection Radosti života (Joys of Life) shifted the point of view from subject to object and throws the disbelief more on society. The rhythm of the poems is close to vaudeville verses or chansons. Nové verše (New Verses, published posthumously in 1919) are not so pathetic as if seen from a distance with a lot of nonchalance. He also wrote satirical poems in Karel Havlíček Borovský's style which were published mostly in p...more

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Average rating: 4.32 · 37 ratings · 0 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Po nás ať přijde potopa 4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1901	My rating:
	Teplo zhaslého plamene: výbor z poezie 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Básně 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Drobky z Františka Gellnera: průřez tvorbou autora s plakátovou přílohou : vychází ke 111. výroćí narození Františka Gellnera. 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1992	My rating:
	Povídky a satiry 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	Tichý život a jiné prózy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1967	My rating:
	Drama, román a fejetony 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Vzdusne Vidiny: Milostna Poezie 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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