Jindřich Šimon Baar
Appearance
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Born | Klenčí pod Čerchovem, Austria-Hungary | February 7, 1869
Died | October 24, 1925 Klenčí pod Čerchovem, Czechoslovakia | (aged 56)
Occupation | Priest, author |
Genre | Novels |
Jindřich Šimon Baar Klenčí pod Čerchovem – 24 October 1925, Klenčí pod Čerchovem) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose. He joined the Czech Catholic modern style, but later severed the ties with that movement.[1] As writer, he emphasized traditional moral values of the countryside.
(7 February 1869,Born into a peasant family, he did religious studies and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1892. As a priest, he strived, unsuccessfully, for reforms in the church.
Works
Among his novels are:
- Cestou křížovou (1900) – the first fruit, autobiographic description of the uneasy life as a reform priest
- Pro kravičku (1905)
- Farská panička (1906)
- Farské historky (1908)
- Jan Cimbura (1908) – highly idealized depiction of peasant life
- historical trilogy: Paní komisarka (1923), Osmačtyřicátníci (1924) and Lůsy (1925)
He also published several short stories and collections of fairy tales.
See also
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