Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Poetic Obituaries: A devoted Marxist and socialist, he [Egon Bondy]

became one of Czechoslovakia's first anti-communist dissidents in the 1950s, and was a leading personality in the Czechoslovak underground in the 1970s.

Bondy also wrote lyrics for The Plastic People of the Universe, a nonconformist rock band banned by the communist regime, which jailed its members.

from International Herald Tribune: Czech poet, philosopher Egon Bondy dies at age 77

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