The "Czech-In" of Thomas More's Utopia

The aim of the article is to discuss two Czech translations of Thomas More's Utopia-one from 1950 by Bohumil Ryba, the other from 1911(?) by Jiri Foustkaand to survey debates that Utopia generated in the Czech context. Proceeding non-chronologically, I introduce several recently published critical studies about More, including Helena Tampierov's Thomas More: Statnik a teolog (Thomas More: Statesman and Theologian) and Bohumil Svoboda's Thomas More: Svetec a utopista (Thomas More: Saint and Utopian). Ryba's translation is subsequently analyzed in the context of criticism from the socialist era (e.g., by Zdenek Mlynar, Ladislav Stoll, and Petr Krivsky); Foustka's translation is introduced with reference to debates about Utopia in the prewar and interwar years.