176:(A drop of balm) was published posthumously in 1943 in Tel Aviv. The basic message of his poetry, according to Miriam Drorová, is: "Man and the universe are in the power of forces beyond their control. Man does not control his actions in a deeper sense at all and acts as if in a dream from which he cannot wake up, although prophets, mystics, poets and philosophers try to do so. Human fate is to live on the edge of the abyss, and with this fate, man remains completely alone."
225:-30 degrees Celsius weather and with little food and diseases spread. This lasted until February 1940, when with the help of Czech compatriots they landed in Romania and with the intervention of the ambassador to the British government, they were rescued and transported to Istanbul. Jiří took it especially hard, because he filled his luggage mainly with his favorite books. He took 200 of them and, in addition to pneumonia, he also developed a kidney inflammation.
202:"To write this book, my brother Jiří Langer had to transport himself from the living reality of the twentieth century into the mystical and ecstatic atmosphere of the Middle Ages. Nor could this be effected merely in a metaphorical way, on the wings of fantasy... Jiří found himself five hundred kilometers away to the east, and simultaneously two or even five centuries back in time." wrote his brother František in the introduction.
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The Nine Gates
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Devĕt bran (Nine Gates; 1937). En traduction : Les Neuf Portes du Ciel. Les secrets du hassidisme (traduit en français par
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