Zdeněk Kalista (22 July 1900 – 17 June 1982) was a

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, literary critic, editor and translator. He also published his early works under the name Z. V. Kalista.

Biography

Kalista was born on 22 July 1900 in

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. From 1921 to 1923, Zdeněk Kalista, a student of Josef Pekař, was elected deputy

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of the ''Literární skupina'' ('Literary Group'). In 1928, he became a member of the Circle of Czech Writers (Kruh českých spisovatelů). Between 1924 and 1939, as well as from 1945 to 1948, he worked at

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in Prague, initially as an assistant at the Historical

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, and from 1932 as a lecturer. Following the Communist takeover, he fell victim to purges and was sentenced to 15 years in

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. He was released in 1960 and retired. In 1966, while working as an editor for various publishers and translating books, Zdeněk Kalista was rehabilitated. Kalista published in a variety of Czech and foreign literary and historical journals. He contributed to Masaryk's

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and his historical works sparked a renewed interest in Czech Baroque. Kalista died on 17 June 1982 in

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, at the age of 81.

Works

Books

* Cesty historikova myšlení (1947) * Blahoslavená Zdislava z Lemberka (1969) * Čechové, kteří tvořili dějiny světa (1939) * Korespondence Zuzany Černínové (1941) * Cesty ve znamení kříže (1947) * Století andělů a ďáblů (1994) * Stručné dějiny československé (1992) * Vzpomínání na Jana Zahradníčka (1988) * Setkání se snem aneb Finlandia * Přátelství a osud (1978) * Po proudu života (1961) * Josef Pekař (1941) * Ctihodná Marie Elekta Ježíšova (1975) * Tváře ve stínu (1969) * Po proudu života * Veliká noc (1987)

References

External links

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