Jakub Deml wrote at a period when the terms of literature itself were being argued over.
The record lists Jakub Deml as Czech priest and writer (1878-1961).
Jakub Deml was born at Tasov in 1878. His recorded nationality is Cisleithania. He was educated at Gymnázium Třebíč.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
He worked as writer, poet and catholic priest.
The writing is recorded in German and Latin.
Books outlive their reviews, and the ones that last are seldom the ones that sold best.
That the work was written from Cisleithania matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Jakub Deml died in 1961, aged 83. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
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