Historick\u00e9 m\u011bsto Hay-on-Wye, ukryt\u00e9 v malebn\u00e9 vel\u0161sk\u00e9 krajin\u011b, bylo kdysi ospalou zem\u011bd\u011blskou komunitou. Ale d\u00edky v\u00fdst\u0159edn\u00edmu a vizion\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9mu Richardu Boothovi se stalo proslul\u00fdm liter\u00e1rn\u00edm uzlem a magnetem pro milovn\u00edky knih z cel\u00e9ho sv\u011bta.<\/p>\n\n
Booth se narodil v Anglii v roce 1938 a do Hay-on-Wye p\u0159i\u0161el jako d\u00edt\u011b a rychle se zamiloval do jeho kouzla. Pot\u00e9, co vystudoval historii na Oxfordu, kr\u00e1tce pracoval jako \u00fa\u010detn\u00ed, ne\u017e se vr\u00e1til do sv\u00e9ho milovan\u00e9ho m\u011bsta.<\/p>\n\n
V 60. letech 20. stolet\u00ed za\u010dal Booth p\u0159em\u011b\u0148ovat Hay-on-Wye na liter\u00e1rn\u00ed r\u00e1j. Zakoupil b\u00fdvalou hasi\u010dskou zbrojnici, normansk\u00fd hrad a n\u011bkolik sklad\u016f, kter\u00e9 zaplnil stovkami tis\u00edc pou\u017eit\u00fdch knih. Sv\u00e9 liter\u00e1rn\u00ed poklady z\u00edsk\u00e1val z kolej\u00ed, kl\u00e1\u0161ter\u016f a knihoven zkrachoval\u00e9 venkovsk\u00e9 \u0161lechty.<\/p>\n\n
Boothova vize pro Hay-on-Wye nebyla vedena ziskem, ale touhou o\u017eivit sv\u00e9 milovan\u00e9 m\u011bsto a vytvo\u0159it jedine\u010dnou niku na sv\u011btov\u00e9 map\u011b. Otev\u0159el \u0161est antikvari\u00e1t\u016f v Hay a inspiroval otev\u0159en\u00ed dal\u0161\u00edch t\u00e9m\u011b\u0159 30 v mal\u00e9m m\u011bst\u011b s m\u00e9n\u011b ne\u017e 2 000 obyvateli.<\/p>\n\n
Anne Addymanov\u00e1, kter\u00e1 vede knihkupectv\u00ed Addyman Books v Hay, p\u0159ipisuje Boothovi z\u00e1sluhu na “diverzifikaci venkovsk\u00e9ho hospod\u00e1\u0159stv\u00ed” a vytvo\u0159en\u00ed prosperuj\u00edc\u00edho kni\u017en\u00edho pr\u016fmyslu ve m\u011bst\u011b.<\/p>\n\n
V roce 1987 Booth zalo\u017eil Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, kter\u00fd se stal jednou z nejpresti\u017en\u011bj\u0161\u00edch liter\u00e1rn\u00edch ud\u00e1lost\u00ed na sv\u011bt\u011b. Festival p\u0159itahuje v\u00fdznamn\u00e9 spisovatele, historiky, hudebn\u00edky a politiky z cel\u00e9ho sv\u011bta a b\u00fdval\u00fd americk\u00fd prezident Bill Clinton jej ozna\u010dil za “Woodstock mysli”.<\/p>\n\n
Boothova v\u00fdrazn\u00e1 osobnost a talent pro sebepropagaci se roz\u0161\u00ed\u0159ily i mimo jeho knihkupeck\u00e9 podniky. Na apr\u00edla 1977 se prohl\u00e1sil kr\u00e1lem Hay-on-Wye a sv\u00e9ho kon\u011b jmenoval p\u0159edsedou vl\u00e1dy. Vyd\u00e1val pasy obyvatel\u016fm m\u011bsta, ud\u011bloval \u0161lechtick\u00e9 tituly a z\u0159\u00eddil “tajnou” slu\u017ebu zn\u00e1mou jako C.I.Hay.<\/p>\n\n
Navzdory ne\u00fasp\u011bch\u016fm a finan\u010dn\u00edm ztr\u00e1t\u00e1m Booth\u016fv duch a smysl pro humor nikdy neochably. A\u017e do sv\u00e9 smrti v roce 2020 provozoval v Hay-on-Wye obchod s n\u00e1zvem King of Hay, kter\u00fd prod\u00e1val knihy, \u010dasopisy a p\u0159edm\u011bty oslavuj\u00edc\u00ed jeho vl\u00e1du.<\/p>\n\n
Odkaz Richarda Bootha \u017eije d\u00e1l v prosperuj\u00edc\u00ed liter\u00e1rn\u00ed kultu\u0159e Hay-on-Wye. Jeho vize prom\u011bnila ospal\u00e9 vel\u0161sk\u00e9 m\u011bsto v \u017eivouc\u00ed centrum pro milovn\u00edky knih, spisovatele a um\u011blce a jeho vliv na m\u011bsto bude zn\u00e1t je\u0161t\u011b mnoho dal\u0161\u00edch generac\u00ed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hay-on-Wye: Liter\u00e1rn\u00ed kr\u00e1lovstv\u00ed Richarda Bootha Mu\u017e, kter\u00fd prom\u011bnil vel\u0161sk\u00e9 m\u011bsto Historick\u00e9 m\u011bsto Hay-on-Wye, ukryt\u00e9 v malebn\u00e9 vel\u0161sk\u00e9 krajin\u011b, bylo kdysi ospalou zem\u011bd\u011blskou komunitou. Ale d\u00edky v\u00fdst\u0159edn\u00edmu a vizion\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e9mu Richardu Boothovi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429],"tags":[5211,5207,5216,5212,5210,5215,5218,5219,5217,5208,5213,5214,5220,5209],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-hay-festival-of-literature-and-the-arts","tag-hay-on-wye","tag-king","tag-bookstores","tag-literary-hub","tag-mischief","tag-passports","tag-peerages","tag-prime-minister","tag-richard-booth","tag-rural-economy","tag-self-promotion","tag-secret-service","tag-used-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}