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Egon
Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer (20 January 1930 in Prague – 9 April 2007 in Bratislava), was a Czech writer, with prolific and distinctive output in poetry, prose and philosophy, one of the leading personalities of the Prague underground within Communist Czechoslovakia. From the 1950s down to the 1980s, his non-conformism made him a target of the totalitarian regime, but he himself also collaborated with the regime's secret police (StB) by informing on other dissidents in his circle. The scope of Bondy's works is exceptionally broad: he published about thirty books of poetry, ranging from epic poems in early 1950s to meditative philosophical works in the 1980s. He also published about twenty novels, including Invalidní sourozenci, most of them dealing with the topic of crisis in an individual vis a vis society. Despite the deep, existential background of his work, the texts are fresh and entertaining. He himself most valued his philosophical works. In the late 1940s, Zbyněk Fišer first took on the name Egon Bondy when preparing a 1949 anthology with his surrealist group whose authors all adopted Jewish pseudonyms. Bondy had been the name of a number of prominent Prague Jews (as well as the name of a…