<prompt> Qedela umusho olandelayo: Ngemva kokuphothula esikoleni esiphakeme ngo-1939, waqala ukufunda ifilosofi eBrno, lapho ahlala khona kwaze kwaba yilapho amaNazi evala wonke amanyuvesi. Ngemuva kwalokho wasebenza njengomhleli ku- Obzor The Horizon ePřerov. Waqeda izifundo zakhe ngo-1949 eCharles University ePrague. Kuze kube ngo-1950, lapho eqala umsebenzi wakhe njengombhali okhokhelwayo, wasebenzela uMnyango Wezokwaziswa. Ngemva  <response>: Ngo-1968 wavinjelwa ukushicilela futhi eminye yemisebenzi yakhe yanyatheliswa phesheya. Ngaphandle kwezincwadi zakhe zezinkondlo, wayengumhumushi odumile wesiNgisi. Uhumushe incwadi ethi The Waste Land kanye nomyeni wakhe ngo-1947, kanye nezincwadi zika-Edgar Allan Poe, uJohn Keats, u-Emily Dickinson noDylan Thomas. Wayengumhumushi nomqondisi kaThomas lapho evakashela ePrague ngoMashi 1949 ukuze ayohlanganyela emhlanganweni wababhali. Unikeze i-akhawunti yokuvakasha kukaThomas ezinkumbulweni zakhe, Záblesky života, eye yabuye yakhiqizwa ngokwengxenye ekuhumusheni kwesiNgisi. 