One of Toyen's many remarkable friends was the somewhat unclassifiable Czech surrealist Bohuslav Brouk. As he was neither an artist nor a poet, his surrealist early work is not well known in the English-speaking world, despite the fact that he spent much of his life in Australia and Great Britain. For those who read Czech, however, the site Bohuslav Brouk: Zde trapno existovat offers a great wealth of information relating to Brouk, including PDF copies of several of his books.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Brouk wrote extensively about sex, psychoanalysis, marxism, and aspects of linguistics and semiotics. He was quite the controversial figure in the 1930s and a subject of satirical cartoons (several of which I plan to include in Magnetic Woman) but he fled Czechoslovakia around the time of the Communist takeover and pursued a quieter but nonetheless busy scientific career.
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