Milada Součková

Milada Součková (1899, Prague – 1983, Cambridge/MA) was a Czech writer, literary historian and diplomat. She lived and worked in Prague, from 1945 on in the United States.

Works

• První písmena, 1934. Experimental prose.
• Amor a psyché, 1937. Experimental prose.
• Odkaz, 1940. Novel.
• Zakladatelé, 1940. Novel.
• Bel canto, 1944.
• Hlava umělce, 1944; repr., Prague: Prostor, 2002. [1]
• Gradus ad parnassum, 1957. Poems.
• Pastorální suita, 1962. Poems.
• Sešity Josephiny Rykrové, 1981. Poems.
• Neznámý člověk, 1962. Prose.
• Kaladý. Svědectví. Mluvící pásmo (1938-1940), Prague: Prostor, 1998, 221 pp.

Literary history and theory

• A Literature in Crisis: Czech Literature 1938-1950, 1954.
• The Czech Romantics, 1959.
• The Parnassian Jaroslav Vrchlický, 1964.
• Baroque in Bohemia, 1980.

Papers

• "An Historian Writes Poetry", Nationalities Papers 12:1 (1984), pp 15-21. (English)

Literature

• Neznámý člověk Milada Součková, Prague: Czech Academy of Sciences, 2001, 142 pp. Conference proceedings. (Czech)

Links

• http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=864
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milada_Součková