Petr Král

Petr Král (4 September 1941 – 17 June 2020[1]) was a Czech writer, initially influenced by surrealism.

Having graduated from FAMU, he worked as an editor in the Orbis publishing house, where he focused on a line of books about film and filmmakers.

In 1968, he emigrated to France where he worked in a gallery, a photo shop, as a teacher, interpreter, translator, screenplay author, reviewer and so on.

Petr Král started writing under the influence of surrealism, but from the 1970s, his books revealed that he felt a lack of fulfilment from the surrealist method.

He wrote about eternal longing which is being nourished by itself, and perhaps leads to consuming the person who yearns.