Láska je utrpení, neláska je smrt - Listování v denících spisovatelky Marie Ebner-Eschenbachové – Jeřábková Eleonora (2023)

Marie Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), originally Countess Dubská, was born in Zdislavice, Moravia, where she is also buried. She spent her life alternating between Moravia and Vienna. To establish herself as a writer, she had to overcome not only the distrust and opposition of her own family, including her husband, but also that of the entire cultural public of her time. She succeeded abundantly. As the first woman, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna, and five years before her death, she was even nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. ***** In her literary beginnings, she focused on plays, later turning to writing novels, short stories, and aphorisms that remain relevant to this day. Her short and incisive pieces, written in a skillful and sharp language, testify to her keen judgment and ability to sarcastically comment on the social conditions of her time. ***** Throughout her adult life, she kept diaries, which were declared an archival cultural monument on the 100th anniversary of her death. The selection from these diaries, capturing the ordinary life of an extraordinary countess, is now in your hands. ***** Despite the brevity of the entries, a great personality emerges before us, a wise and exceptionally literary gifted author, a distinctive and fearless artist creating in...