M A H E N Jiří

1882 - 1929

Czech poet, journalist, script editor, librarian, director and theater critic

Brno: part of the library is located in J. Mahen's Memorial. Nowadays it is impossible to say which books actually belonged to Mahen and how big was the original library.

Characteristics: fiction, poetry and drama in Czech, French, German, Russian. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Verlaine, Goethe. Special literature: art, psychology, theater, language textbooks. Some books are signed by Mahen. Inscriptions, notes, underlining, marked pages, objects embedded in books, Mahen's notebook.

Literature:

ČERNOCHOVÁ, T. Osobní knihovna Jiřího Mahena. (Seminární práce) Praha: ÚISK FF UK v Praze, 2005. 10 s.