Jan Maria Plojhar

Jan Maria Plojhar is a Czech novel, written by Julius Zeyer. Written in late 1887 and early 1888, it was first published in 1891.

It is a tragedy about a Czech poet living abroad in Greece and Italy, who is incurably ill with tuberculosis after a chest wound suffered in a duel. In an effort to find a muse, the protagonist, Jan Maria Plojhar, has affairs with three women, including a married Romanian called Mrs Dragopulos, described as a femme fatale, and a prostitute called Gemma.

Czech history is also a theme of the novel, and Plojhar is used as a symbol of the Czech state.

References

  1. 1 2 Chew 2003, p. 105.
  2. 1 2 3 Bažant, Bažantová & Starn 2010, p. 197.
  3. ↑ Chew 2003, p. 105–106.
  4. ↑ Thomas 2003, p. 48.

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