Petr KRAL's Seasoned Metal,

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Petr KRAL -Metal de la saison A double-leaf on laid paper, 1982, enriched with a drawing by Christian Bouillé -Pièces à conviction 2 double leaves, one on transparent paper, in-8°, illustration by V. Voskovec, one of 30 copies -Brocarts (ou glisser), pli dix Walden Press, 2013, in-16, 6 pp., on laid paperPetr Král, pen name of Petr Chrzanovský, born 4 September 1941 and died 17 June 2020 in Prague, was a Czech writer naturalised as French.Poet, member of the Czech surrealist group led by Vratislav Effenberger, Petr Král left his native country during the Prague Spring in 1968 for Paris until 2006, when he returned to live in Prague. Also an essayist (on cinema or poetry) and prose writer, many of his numerous books were written in French. For about a decade he was a member of the editorial board of the poetry journal Le Mâche-laurier. The journal Secousse dedicated an issue in his honour.