Důstojný pokračovatel velkého otce Politická biografi e Prokopa Drtiny
A Biography of Sidonie Nádherná as a Mirror of the Times

Summary/Abstract: Wagnerova, Alena. Sidonie Nádherná a konec střední Evropy. Trans. from the German by Vratislav Slezak. Prague: Argo, 2010, 214 pp. Sidonie Nadherna (1885–1950), a baroness and patroness of the arts and a love interest of the great writers Karl Kraus and Rainer Maria Rilke, has been closely linked to the manor house in Vrchotovy Janovice (Janowitz), central Bohemia. Though she has attracted the interest of scholars of literature and historians, she has until recently remained in the shadow of her two famous admirers. In the work under review (the Czech translation of Das Leben der Sidonie Nádherný. Eine Biographie, Hamburg, 2003), the writer Alena Wagnerova provides, according to the reviewer, a new view, combining the genre of cultural-historical biography with moderate feminism, truly making her protagonist the centre of interest. Her book is also a probe into a society, and by means of the life story of Sidonie Nadherna she depicts the trends, hopes, and context of the period.

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