Viktor Dyk (ˈvɪktor ˈdɪk) (December 31, 1877, Pšovka u Mělníka

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, Austria-Hungary

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 – May 14, 1931, near the island of Lopud

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, Yugoslavia

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) was a well-known Czech

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 poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer.

Viktor Dyk studied at a gymnasium

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 in Prague

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 (one of his teachers was Alois Jirásek

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) and then at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague

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.

In 1911, he became involved in politics and joined the Státoprávně pokroková strana. During the First World War, he was imprisoned in Vienna

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 for his resistance activities against Austria-Hungary

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. In 1918, he co-founded the Czechoslovak National Democratic Party (in Czech

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: Československá národní demokracie).

His political views were conservative

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 and nationalist

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. In the times of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia

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, Viktor Dyk was one of the prominent intellectual opponents of the leftish president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

Viktor Dyk died of a heart failure while swimming in the sea near the island of Lopud

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.

Works

Poetry

• A porta inferi, 1897
• Síla života, 1898
• Marnosti, 1900
• Satiry a sarkasmy, 1905
• Milá sedmi loupežníků, 1906
• Pohádky z naší vesnice, 1910
• Giuseppe Moro, 1911
• Zápas Jiřího Macků, 1916
• Noci chiméry, 1917
• Devátá vlna 1930
• Lehké a těžké kroky 1915
• Anebo 1917
• Okno 1921
• Poslední rok 1922

Prose

• Stud, 1900
• Hučí jez a jiné prózy, 1903
• Konec Hackenschmidův, 1904
• Prosinec, 1906
• Prsty Habakukovy, 1906
• Píseň o vrbě, 1908
• Příhody, 1911
• Krysař, 1915
• Tajemná dobrodružství Alexeje Iványče Kozulinova, 1923
• Tichý dům, 1921
• Zlý vítr, 1922
• Prsty Habakukovy, 1925
• Můj přítel Čehona, 1925
• Dědivadelní hra, 1927
• Holoubek Kuzma, 1928
• Soykovy děti, 1929

Political literature

• Ad usum pana presidenta republiky (1929 – criticism of Edvard Beneš
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   and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
• O národní stát (posthumously 1932–1938, 7 books od Dyk's political writing from 1917–1931)

Dramas

• Epizoda, 1906
• Posel, 1907
• Zmoudření Dona Quijota, 1913
• Veliký mág, 1914
• Zvěrstva, 1919
• Ondřej a drak, 1919
• Revoluční trilogie, 1921
• Napravený plukovník Švec, 1929 – support of Rudolf Medek
  Rudolf Medek
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See also

• List of Czech writers
• The monument to Viktor Dyk near Dubrovnik, by Serbian architect Nikola Dobrović - http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/16559