Radko Pytlík (8 October 1928 – 31 January 2022) was a Czech literary historian and writer.

Life and career

Born in

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, during

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Pytlík was part of the Czech Resistance and took part in the Prague uprising. In 1952 he graduated in philosophy at the

Charles University Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in the world in conti ...

, and from 1955 he worked at the Institute of Czech and World Literature of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Pytlík focused his studies on Czech modern literature from the 19th century onwards and particularly on

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's works and life, to whom he devoted his best known work ''Toulavé house, Život Jaroslava Haška, autora Osudů dobrého vojáka Švejka'' ("Wandering Gosling, The Life of Jaroslav Hašek, author of The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk"), which was translated in a number of foreign languages. His works also include monographies of

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. Rudolf died in

on 31 January 2022, at the age of 93. He was the father of the singer and actor

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References

External links

Radko Pytlík
at Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands
Radko Pytlík
at

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