Jan Křesadlo

Jan Křesadlo was the primary education pseudonym used by Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava (born the December 9th 1926 with Prague, deceased the August 13rd 1995 with Colchester), Czech Psychologue which was also Nouvelliste and Poète.

Anticommunist, Pinkava is expatriate in the United Kingdom with his wife and his four children following the Printemps of Prague - the invasion by the armies of the Warsaw Pact carried out by the Red Army . He worked as psychologist until his early withdrawal in 1982, when he became writer full-time. Its first news " Mrchopěvci" (English GraveLarks, French ChantresCharognes) was published by the publisher of the emigrants of Josef Škvorecký " 68 Publishers". Pinkava received the Prix of Egon Hostovský for this news in 1984.

It chose its pseudonym (which means rifle, rough) partly because this last contains its singular ř ; in the same way, it enjoyed to create several other pseudonyms such as for example Jake Rolands (a Anagramme), J.K. Klement (according to his/her grandfather, for the translations in English), Juraj Hron (for its writings Slovaque - Moravian), Ferdinand Lučovický Z Lučovic has Na Suchým pares (for its music), Kamil Troud (for its illustrations) etc

Pinkava was also interested by the music of chorus, by composing a Messe Glagolitique. In the same way he worked in the field of the Logique mathematics, by discovering the algebra of multi-valuées Logiques which bears its name.

As Polyglot Polymathe and , Pinkava took pleasure to be posed delicate goals, such as for example the Traduction of a series of Sonnet S on Prague of Jaroslav Seifert, “Ring of sonnets”. It published a collection of its own poems in seven languages. Probably its more shocking creation is the Astronautilía-Hvězdoplavba , a Science-fiction of 6575 lines epic Poésie, an odyssey in Greek old, with its Czech Traduction parallel in . This work was published shortly after its death in limited edition.

At the time of the creation of this article there was no translation of its French works.

He is the father of the realizer Jan Pinkava who received a Oscar for Geri' S Game in 1998.

External bonds

  • the official site of Jan Křesadlo, in Czech and English
  • English Bonds:
    • Translations
  • some sights of criticisms, in English
    • by Helena Kupcová
    • by Vladimír Novotný

  • critical arts person of Astronautilía (Amazon site)

  • short biography

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