Karel Čapek a anglický PEN klub. Dosud nepublikovaná korespondence
Karel Čapek and the English PEN Club. Previously Unpublished Correspondence
Author(s): Klára KrásenskáSubject(s): Cultural history, Comparative Study of Literature, Czech Literature, International relations/trade, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), British Literature
Published by: Památník národního písemnictví
Keywords: English PEN; Czechoslovak PEN; Karel Čapek; Josef Palivec; John Galsworthy; Marjorie Scott; H. G. Wells; correspondence
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a small selection of the previously unpublished correspondence of Karel Čapek with the English PEN Club between 1924 and 1927. That was the period in which the Czechoslovak PEN Club was born under the influence of Čapek’s contacts with the authorial circle of the English PEN and its headquarters in London. The paper presents several excerpts of Čapek’s correspondence with Marjorie Scott, John Galsworthy, or H. G. Wells, contextualizing them in Čapek’s famous travels around Great Britain and Ireland in the summer of 1924 and in the subsequent establishment of a branch of the PEN Club in Prague in the spring of 1925. The correspondence is part of the still-unedited estate of Josef Palivec, so the paper also draws attention to this important diplomat, poet, and translator, who was the brother-in-law of the Čapek brothers.
Journal: Literární archiv
- Issue Year: 2025
- Issue No: 57
- Page Range: 57-71
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English, Czech
