Dyk, Viktor

Dyk, Viktor

(vĭk`tôr dĭk), 1877–1931, Czech writer and nationalist. Dyk considered his novels, satires, short stories, plays, and poems as weapons in the struggle to free his country from Austrian rule. A long poem, The Window (1920), describes his experiences in an Austrian prison. As a dramatist he is best known for The Messenger (1907), which concerns the Czech loss of independence, and for the satirical play, Andrew and the Dragon (1920).

Dyk, Viktor

 

Born Dec. 31, 1877, in Psovka, near the city of Mělnńk; died May 14, 1931, at Lopud Island, Yugoslavia. Czech author.

Dyk began writing in the late 1890’s as a symbolist. He was also the author of political satires. Dyk’s poetry from the period of World War I, which is full of enthusiasm for the struggle for national independence, forms the book A War Tetralogy (1915-22). Dyk also wrote prose, dramas, and journalistic works. His novel The End of Hackenschmid (1904) is dedicated to the anti-Austrian movement in Bohemia. After the creation of the Czechoslovak bourgeois state (1918), Dyk assumed a reactionary political position.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
In Antologiia cheshskoi poezii, vol. 2. Moscow, 1959.

REFERENCE

Buriánek, F. Generace buřičů. Prague, 1968. Pages 138-46.