JIŘÍ SUMÍN – ZAPOMNIANA ORÊDOWNICZKA UCIOENIONYCH KOBIET
JIŘÍ SUMÍN – A FORGOTTEN ADVOCATE OF OPPRESSED WOMEN

Summary/Abstract: The most frequent and important topic raised by Jiøí Sumín in his prose was a description of social situation of women at the turn of the century. His characters were described as fully dependant, subordinated; they were seen as “goods” in the common marriage market and therefore educated only in this narrow field. Despite their difficult situation, some of these women never stopped dreaming about freedom and a better life and, in the outcome, each of them had to pay substantial price for it. Based on her own experience, writer Amálie Vrbováaka Jiøí Sumín created an interesting gallery of women at different age, coming from various social backgrounds, who had one common individual characteristic: disappointment.

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