ABSTRACT
His life was interlaced with tragic paradoxes. On the one hand, Czech theatre owed few others as much as it did him for so many truly new and inspirational impulses, from which whole generations of younger directors drew and which helped so many actors to an artistic rebirth. On the other hand, this same Czech theatre gave few others as little opportunity to enjoy the results of his work, to develop them in peace, and to live to have them justly appreciated. In Radok's fate was something of the fate of an outlaw, an Ahasvera; almost always he was driven away from his work precisely at the time when it began to bear fruit.
