Jan Neruda - Dum U dvou sluncu / House "At the Two Suns" - Nerudova ulice (Prague)
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Depicted large bronze memorial tablet, devoted to a prominent XIXth century Czech writer and poet Jan Neruda, you can find on the front facade of the Baroque house "At the Two Suns" in street bearing the Neruda name in Lesser Town of Prague.
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 03/29/2017
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Depicted large bronze memorial tablet, devoted to a prominent XIXth century Czech writer and poet Jan Neruda, you can find on the front facade of the Baroque house "At the Two Suns" in street bearing the Neruda name in Lesser Town of Prague.
Jan Neruda lived in this house between 1845-1857, his father had run a tobacco shop there. After father’s death, Mrs. Nerudová with their son moved to the house "At the Three Red Eagles" in the same street.
The bronze tablet on the facade bears following inscription in Czech:
JAN NERUDA
ZDE ŽIL
A SVOJI
LITERÁRNÍ
CINNOST
ZAPOCAL
*1834 †1891
pécí spolku
Menšího Mesta
Pražského
X.1895
|
Translation to English:
JAN NERUDA
THERE HE LIVED
AND BEGAN HIS
LITERARY
ACTIVITY
*1834 †1891
associations
of Lesser Town
of Prague
X.1895
|
Jan Nepomuk Neruda (9 July 1834 – 22 August 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of "the May school".
In his work Neruda promoted the idea of rebirth of Czech patriotism. He participated in all the central cultural and political struggles of his generation, and gained a reputation as a sensitive critic. Neruda became, with Vítezslav Hálek, the most prominent representative of the new literary trends.
Neruda was known for his satirical depiction of the petty bourgeois of Prague. His most popular prose work is Povídky malostranské (1877, Tales of the Lesser Town), a collection of short stories, which was translated into English in 1957 by the novelist and mystery writer Ellis Peters. Neruda's stories take the reader to the Lesser Town, to its streets and yards, shops, churches, houses, and restaurants. [wiki]