Jan Maria Plojhar

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Jan Maria Plojhar is a Czech novel, written by Julius Zeyer. Written in late 1887 and early 1888, it was first published in 1891.^[1]^[2]

It is a tragedy about a Czech poet living abroad in Greece and Italy, who is incurably ill with tuberculosis after a chest wound suffered in a duel.^[1]^[2] In an effort to find a muse, the protagonist, Jan Maria Plojhar, has affairs with three women, including a married Romanian called Mrs Dragopulos, described as a femme fatale, and a prostitute called Gemma.^[3]

Czech history is also a theme of the novel, and Plojhar is used as a symbol of the Czech state.^[2]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Chew 2003, p. 105.
^ ^a ^b ^c Bažant, Bažantová & Starn 2010, p. 197.
^ Chew 2003, p. 105–106.
^ Thomas 2003, p. 48.

Works

Brusak, K. (1969). "Zeyer, Julius". In Thorlby, Anthony (ed.). The Penguin Companion to Literature. Vol. 2 (European Literature). Penguin Books. p. 838. ISBN 9780140510355.
Chew, Geoffrey (2003). "Reinterpreting Janáček and Kamila: Dangerous Liaisons in Czech Fin-de-Siècle Music and Literature". In Beckerman, Michael (ed.). Janáček And His World. Princeton University Press. pp. 99–144. ISBN 1400832098.
Bažant, Jan; Bažantová, Nina; Starn, Frances, eds. (2010). "Self-Determination to Cosmopolitanism". The Czech Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-8223-4794-1.
Thomas, Alfred (2003). "Forging Czechs: The Reinvention of National Identity in the Bohemian Lands". In Ryan, Judith; Thomas, Alfred (eds.). Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations Making Selves. Routledge. pp. 29–52. ISBN 1-135-45820-0.