Egon Bondy

Egon Bondy pseudonym of Zbynek Fiser (born the January 20th 1930 with Prague, Tchéquie - died the April 9th 2007 with Bratislava, Slovakia) was a Poète, Philosophe, Dramaturge and Czech Romancier, which was one of the great personalities of Czechoslovakian dissidence. He is regarded as an emblematic figure of the underground musical, literary and political Czechoslovakian since the Années 1950.

Biography

Zbynek Fiser chooses the Pseudonyme Juif of Egon Bondy at the beginning of the hoop net year 1949, whereas the Czechoslovakia, become communist the shortly after the Coup of Prague, again puts the Shoah at the day order. Bondy becomes thus the figurehead of the revolt of left against the Stalinisme anti-semite.

At the end of the Years 1940, Egon Bondy, which was not yet twenty years old, was already very active in a surrealist group. After having lived a youth the most animated of, it passed its baccalaureat only at the age of twenty-seven years, and undertook then, of 1957 with 1961, of the studies of Philosophie and Psychologie to the Université Charles of Prague.

At the beginning of the Years 1960, it must work as night watchman to the National museum. It starts to write poems, preaching its own poetic current, the total realism . Very quickly, it became one of the central figures of the cultural movement underground praguois. Its nonconformism ineluctably led it to enter in conflict with the Communist regime then in place in Czechoslovakia and with becoming one of the first Czechoslovakian dissidents.

In 1967, it obtains the title of doctor of philosophy. But its writings could be published only in Samizdat (system clandestine allowing circulation under the coat of the dissenting writings), and, except for a work on Bouddha, published in 1968, thanks to the liberalization of the Printemps of Prague, they could be published only after the Révolution of velvet, which involved the fall of Communism in 1989.

Bohumil Hrabal (1914 - 1997) was one of his/her very close friends. It always placed Egon Bondy at highest in its meetings. It sometimes happened to the two friends to do what it called of “transfered with beer”, during which extravagance, the madness, the yells or of cockroach of Bondy more once impressed it. It evokes in Tendre barbarian the suicide “ programmed ” of Egon:

We went to mushrooms in the wood of Brdy. It was not only for mushrooms, we wanted to follow the way of railroad on which Egon Bondy, moron by opiates, had lain down to be made crush without pain - but this night, the way on which Egon was lying was except service and the morning it had awaked not in the empire of ontology but indeed on the rails, while the trains ran on the way of to côté

Egon Bondy was always interested by the study of the work of Karl Marx, of which it drew a criticism from the two contemporary systems - Capitalisme and totalitarian socialism - which did not find at all thanks to its eyes, and which it returned back to back. Its philosophical work concerns the ontology and the questions ethical S which are dependant there. Atheistic philosopher , known for his ideas of extreme-left, it also was interested in the Eastern philosophies - Chinese or Bouddhisme - but also in the Islam and the Christian Théologie.

Engaged in the opposition of the radical left (extreme-left), Egon Bondy is the author of forty collections of poetry, of a score of works in prose and moreover of many tests on the Philosophie and the Politologie.

Some of the poems of Egon Bondy were put in music by the group rock'n'roll The Plastic People off the Universe , whose members were imprisoned in the middle of the Années 1970 by the communist authorities of Czechoslovakia. The musicians named besides one their albums Egon Bondy' S Happy Hearts Club Banned thus paying a homage simultaneous at the same time to Bondy and the Beatles.

Egon Bondy lived since 1993 in the Slovak capital , Bratislava, in sign of protest against the partition of the Czechoslovakia. It is in this city that it is deceased Monday April 9th 2007 at the 77 years age.

Works published in French

  • Newspaper of the girl who seeks or how to discover the Czech writer Egon Bondy, “tender barbarian” at Bohumil Hrabal , translated from Czech by Marcela Salivarova Bideau, 106 pages, ED. URDLA, Villeurbanne, 2004 -

One can moreover read poems of Egon Bondy translated into French in the reviews:

    • Books of the East n° 15,1979;
    • Books Leon Trotsky n° 36,1988;
    • Red and Green, February 1989;
    • International Letter, spring 1990;
    • Two banks of Morava, Bf, 1994;
    • Crunching It n° 20,1996.

External bonds

  • Obituary of Egon Bondy by Marcus Williamson published in the British daily newspaper '' Independent The '' on April 17th, 2007

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