Josef Mach: The Run of Life

Excerpts from the humorous memoirs of the poet, novelist and translator Josef Mach (1883 - 1951) The Course of Life. A fond look back at the life pilgrimage of a "sober" member of the Czech pre-war bohemia. Read by Petr NárožnýThe breakthrough period in the author's life was the ten years he spent among his American compatriots in Chicago and Washington, where he worked successively as a teacher, accountant, and editor of Czech-American periodicals; he participated in the local anti-Austrian movement. After the establishment of the Republic, he headed the press service at the Czechoslovak embassy here. He held the same post in Rome and - after his return to his homeland - at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague. Josef Mach published a collage of autobiographical prose narratives and mostly satirical poems from various stages of his work in 1933 in the Umělecká beseda in Prague in only five hundred and ten copies.