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Jan Zahradníček Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

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The Jan Zahradníček Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature is an important resource documenting the literary and Catholic opposition to the communist regime in post-war Czechoslovakia. It includes Jan Zahradníčekʼs poetry manuscripts, written illegally in the 1950s, in Pankrác Prison.

Location

  • Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
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Languages

  • Czech

Name of collection

  • Zahradníček Jan (1905-1960)

Provenance and cultural activities

Description of content

  • Although this collection contains only part of Jan Zahradníčekʼs heritage, it is an important resource documenting the literary and Catholic opposition to the communist regime in post-war Czechoslovakia, as it includes Jan Zahradníčekʼs poetry written in prison. Moreover, it contains some of Zahradníčekʼs correspondences, as well as translations, photography and diaries from 1940–1941 and 1960.

Content

  • manuscripts (ego-documents, diaries, notes, letters, drafts, etc.): 1000-
  • photos: 0-9

Date of founding

  • 1935

Place of founding

Creator(s) of content

Collector(s)

Access type

  • visits by appointments

Publications

  • Wiendl, Jan, and Jan Komárek, eds. 2003. Není dálky: vzájemná korespondence Františka Halase a Jana Zahradníčka z let 1930-1949. Praha: Paseka.

Author(s) of this page

  • Kůželová, Michaela

References

Zahradníček, Jan. 2015. Dům Strach. Praha: Vyšehrad.

Harold B. Segel. 2012. The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945–1990. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Zahradníček, Jan, and Jan Wiendl, ed. 2017. Verše: leopoldovský sešit poezie. Brno: Moravská zemská knihovna.

Doležal, Miloš. 2016. “Jak čestný a citlivý dozorce zachránil literární poklad.” Last modified July 20. http://www.rozhlas.cz/plus/dokument/_zprava/jak-cestny-a-citlivy-dozorce-zachranil-literarni-poklad--1634490.

The description of this collection was created with the kind help of the director of the Museum of Czech Literature (PNP) Mgr. Zdeněk Freisleben, the head of the Literary Archive of the PNP PhDr. Tomáš Pavlíček, PhD., and the curator of the Literary Archive of the PNP PhDr. Petr Kotyk.

PNP. 2017. "Výroční zpráva 2016." Accessed October 17. http://www.pamatniknarodnihopisemnictvi.cz/content/fck/files/VyrocniZpravaPNP2016.pdf.

Kotyk, Petr, interview by Kůželová, Michaela, November 15, 2017. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Last edited on: 2020-01-07 14:02:54