Setkání s odvrácenou tváří Ria Preisnera
Rio Preisner: Glimpses of a hidden face

Author(s): Jiří Hanuš
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: history; 20th century; Rio Preisner; biography;
Summary/Abstract: Whenever a historian turns to the genre of biography, several dangers lie in wait. Although there may be a sense of calm from having opted for a very traditional genre, at the same time there has to be an awareness of the many pitfalls. Writing biographies today is no simple matter: there is the danger of a descriptive ‘passage of life’; the arduous selection of fundamental or even fateful decisions taken at a crossroads in life; for the better-known figures there is the danger of popularization, while for the lesser well known there is the need to overcome deep-rooted stereotypes in the imagination implanted by school education and deep-rooted ideas about ‘important personalities’.

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