{{Short description|Czech writer}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2025}} thumb '''Arthur Breisky''' (real name '''Arthur Vincenc Josef Breiský''': May 14, 1885, Roudnice nad Labem near Prague – 1910, New York City, United States) was a Czech writer of Decadence.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pynsent |first=Robert |date=1973 |title=A Czech Dandy: An Introduction to Arthur Breisky |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4206786 |journal=The Slavonic and East European Review |volume=51 |issue=125 |pages=517–523 |issn=0037-6795}}</ref>
He was a novelist, a translator, literary editor, and a playwright; wrote a number of reviews on modern literature and art. Was also known as a dandy and aesthetician, and a master of mystification both in his literary works and in real life.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Naked Masks: Arthur Breisky or How To Be a Czech Decadent_1 {{!}} Slovo a Smysl |url=http://slovoasmysl.ff.cuni.cz/node/123 |access-date=2025-06-17 |website=slovoasmysl.ff.cuni.cz}}</ref>
Died as a lift boy, probably committed an error.
Born in Roudnice, Arthur started his education in Prague but moved with the family to Louny in 1899. Nowadays, there is a street in Louny named after Arthur Breisky.<ref>{{Citation |last=Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University |title=Czech Dendism as a Hoax: the Literary Games of Artur Breisky |date=2023 |work=Hoax in Slavic Cultures: Poetics and Practices |pages=129–140 |editor-last=Polyakov |editor-first=Dmitry |url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=54697190 |access-date=2025-06-17 |others=Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nataliya Zlydneva |publisher=Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences |doi=10.31168/7576-0480-0.07 |isbn=978-5-7576-0480-0 |last2=Kolianov |first2=Alexey |editor2-last=Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Outline of works==
Best known books:
* ''Triumf zla'' (''The Triumph of Evil'') (1910) * ''Dvě novely'' (''Two stories'') (1927)
Essays and critical reviews:
* ''Střepy zrcadel'' (''Shattered Mirrors'') (1928)
His correspondence and unpublished papers from 1902–1910 have been gathered and later published as a book ''V království chimér'' (''In the Kingdom of Chimeras'').
== See also == * Czech literature
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.vejr.cz/regiz/archiv/osobnosti/breisky.html Details of his work, biography] {{in lang|cs}} *[http://www.ff.cuni.cz/tinweb/tw?ST=03&SID=00978C0235&L=02&KDE=016&RET=Spisy+Arthura+Breisk%C3%A9ho Selected bibliography from the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Charles University, Prague {{in lang|cs}} *[http://slovoasmysl.ff.cuni.cz/node/123 Naked Masks: Arthur Breisky or How To Be a Czech Decadent_1 ] *[https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/90881 Arthur Breisky and Oscar Wilde: Criticism, Mask, Mystification] {{Authority control}}
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