The Russian Journey of Karel Havlíček Borovský

Little is known of Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821-56) outside Czechoslovakia, but his fellow Czechs revere him. He is one of their nineteenth-century culture heroes - satirist of great finesse and a shrewd but always humane journalist and politician. The Russian journey proved to be the turning po...

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Main Author: Heim, Michael Henry (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 1979
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Summary:Little is known of Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821-56) outside Czechoslovakia, but his fellow Czechs revere him. He is one of their nineteenth-century culture heroes - satirist of great finesse and a shrewd but always humane journalist and politician. The Russian journey proved to be the turning point in Havlíček's life.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (194 p.)
ISBN:b12439
Access:Open Access