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6 unusual facts about Jan Neruda


Adolf Kašpar

His illustrations can also be found in other works by Alois Jirásek, Jan Neruda, Karel Václav Rais und František Ladislav Čelakovský.

Egon Kisch

His early work is characterised by an interest in crime and the lives of the poor of Prague, taking Jan Neruda, Émile Zola and Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz as his models.

Jan Neruda

Andrew J. Feustel took a copy of "Cosmic Songs" with him on space shuttle mission STS-125.

Jiří Krejčík

His first directorial feature film was 1947's A Week in the Quiet House (Týden v tichém domě), in which he wrote the screenplay based on the short stories of Jan Neruda.

Malá Strana

The famous Czech novelist Jan Neruda was born, lived in and wrote about Malá Strana; Nerudova Street is named after him.

Viktor Oliva

He's done illustrations for several books of Svatopluk Čech, Jan Neruda, Karel Václav Rais, Václav Beneš Třebízský, Kronbauer – those were published for almost two decades with Viktor Oliva's illustrations.


Karel Hynek Mácha

Mácha's genius was discovered and glorified much later by the poets and novelists of the 1850s (e.g., Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, and Karolina Světlá) and "Máj" is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism and is considered one of the best Czech poems ever written.


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