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Josef Nesvadba |
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19th June 1926 |
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Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
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Josef Nesvadba (June 19, 1926 Prague, Czechoslovakia – April 26, 2005 Prague) was a Czech science-fiction writer, one the best known.
Nesvadba had a degree in psychiatry, he was a pioneer of group psychotherapy in the Czech Republic.
He originally translated poetry from English and wrote theatrical plays, afterwards, he started to write short stories. His interest being detective fiction and satirical SF.
As befitting his background psychiatry is often a theme in his SF. These tend to revolve around stories of human weakness, divided personalities, and so forth. However the tendency was often toward satire and irony. As with much Czech fiction the humor tends to be a tad dark. In "Vampires Ltd" cars run on blood. In "Tomorrow I'll wake up and scald myself with tea" issues of causality and Hitler prop up. He also directed some satirical barbs at the Czech Communist government. He had little faith in some of the more grandiose dreams of Communism, but overall agreed with a Marxist analysis of things.
Starting in the 1970s he began to move away from science fiction. From a commercial perspective this didn't work well, but in retrospect was likely inevitable. This is because his main interests are slightly divergent from Western views of science fiction.
Some of his stories were bases to movies (e.g. Death of Tarzan, The Half-wit of Xeenemunde, Vampires, Ltd, Tomorrow I'll wake up and scald myself with tea), he also worked on a few of TV and radio serials.
Works
(partial list)
- Theatrical plays
- Výprava do oceánie
- Ocelový kruh
- Ráno
- Tři podpisy
- Books
- Tarzanova smrt (The Death of Tarzan) – 1958
- Einsteinův mozek (Einstein's Brain) – 1958
- Výprava opaÄným smÄ›rem (Expedition in The Opposite Direction) – 1962
- Dialog s doktorem Dongem (Dialogue with Dr. Dong) – 1964
- Bludy Erika N. (Delusions of Erik N.) – 1974
- Tajná zpráva z Prahy (Secret News from Prague) – 1978
- Minehava podruhé (Minehava for the Second Time) – 1981
- Hledám za manžela muže (I Want a Man for My Husband) – 1986
- Peklo Beneš (Beneš Hell) – 2002
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