Miloslav Topinka (July 4, 1945, Nový Etynk near

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. In 1968 he took part in the student Expedition Lambaréné as the expedition's psychologist. In 1969 he became an editor of a monthly revue called ''Sešity''. After it was banned, he worked as a psychologist and a clerk; he spent the years 1980–1987 in

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. After his return to Czechoslovakia he worked among other professions as a translator and editor of authors such as

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, Gilbert-Lecomte,

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etc. Miloslav Topinka lives in

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Topinka's main themes are what he calls "the crack" - in other words, how to break from one's hidespot through to " 4th dimension" - something that e. g.

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...

Paul Celan Paul Celan (; ; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, U ...

(''Light-Compulsion'', 1970) wrote about as well; and "silence" (one of his interviews is called "Anyone who ever thought about poetry, must ask oneself 'Why did Rimbaud stop writing?'" ), embracing the idea that a poet's main goal is his/her existence itself. In his most celebrated book, ''The Crack'', he uses many experimental techniques, such as transparent paper, holes in pages etc. to enable the reader to see differently. The book is about such people and events as Nerval, Rimbaud, Buhl; and

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. Poetry * ''Utopír'' (1969) - the name is a neologism which symbolises the

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Interview with Topinka
/ref> * ''Krysí hnízdo'', (The Nest of Rats) 1970, destroyed by order of government before distribution, re-edited 1991, in Polish 1993 * ''Trhlina'' (The Crack) 2002,

Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert (; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides ...

Prize Biography * ''Vedle mne jste všichni jenom básníci'' (Compared to me you're all just poets) 1995 – a biography of Arthur Rimbaud Essays * ''Hadí kámen'' (Snakestone), 2008 - collected essays and interviews, F. X. Šalda Prize 2008 Editor * ''Vysoká hra'' ( Le Grand Jeu at the French Wikipedia), 1993 For children * ''Kniha o Zemi'' (Book about Earth), 1979 * ''Martin a hvězda'' (Martin and the star), 1981 * ''To neznáte zvířátka'' (Let the animals surprise you), 1981

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About M. Topinka, in Czech

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