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Rudolf Těsnohlídek (7 June 1882 – 12 January 1928) was a Czech writer, poet, journalist and translator. He also used the pseudonym Arnošt Bellis.
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Rudolf Těsnohlídek (7 June 1882 – 12 January 1928) was a Czech writer, poet, journalist and translator. He also used the pseudonym Arnošt Bellis.
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Biography Těsnohlídek was born on 7 June 1882 in Čáslav, Austria-Hungary. He attended gymnasium in Hradec Králové and later started to study Czech, history and French at university in Prague but didn't graduate. Starting in 1908, he was a contributor to the Brno newspaper Lidové noviny, where he became a reporter of soudničky (cases from the local magistrate's court). His serialized novel Liška Bystrouška (Vixen Sharp Ears), written to accompany a series of drawings by Stanislav Lolek, appeared in the Lidové noviny between 7 April and 23 June 1920 and is regarded as an early comic strip. The story was published as a book in 1921, won a state prize and achieved lasting popularity. This optimistic tale, somewhere between a children's fairy tale and adult satire, was used as the basis for Leoš Janáček's opera The Cunning Little Vixen (Příhody Lišky Bystroušky, 1923). Some of Těsnohlídek's other work reflects more pessimism and alienation than the lighthearted Vixen's tale. His life, as interpreted by his journalistic colleague Bedřich Golombek, was a melodramatic tragedy imbued with pessimism, darkness, melancholy and decadence, a life plagued from childhood by feelings of sadness and social exclusion. In his teens, he watched helplessly as a friend…
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Adaptations Ursula Dubosarsky's 2018 novel for children, Brindabella, is based on Vixen Sharp Ears relocated in the Australian bush, with the role of the Vixen played by a kangaroo.
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Nénie (1902) – poetry Dva mezi ostatními (Two Among Others) (1906) Květy v jíní (Flowers in Hoarfrost) (1908)
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Poseidon (1916) Liška Bystrouška (Vixen Sharp-ears, The Cunning Little Vixen) (1920) Kolonia Kutejsík (1922, awarded a state prize)
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Paví oko (Peacock's Eye) (1922) Čimčirínek a chlapci (Čimčirínek and the Boys) (1922, stories for children)
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Vrba zelená (Green Willow) (1925) Cvrček na cestách (Cricket on the move) (1927) Surovost z něžnosti a jiné soudničky (The Brutality of Tenderness and Other soudničky) (a collection of his soudničky, published in 1982) Vixen Sharp Ears was first published in English in 1985, as The Cunning Little Vixen, with pictures by Maurice Sendak.