In Litoměřice he studied to be a gardener and he devoted some time to this profession. Thanks to this he found employment at Choustník Castle, where he became interested in the baroque benefactor Count Šporka and Kuks. He returns to this period in his life in his literary creations (amongst others Hovory ve skříni in the samizdat version of the collection Zadrhlo za hrdlo).
During Communism Bor had several professions which were linked, as he himself says, “by the fact that I’ll do what I want to do”. He was a gardener, worked at a blast furnace, was a machine worker in a gas plant, a theatre stagehand, a welder, an advertising worker, an electrician, a tutor, an antique dealer, a restorer, a bookbinder, etc.
Bor’s literary works are influenced by hermetism, imbued with a gentle aesthetic feel.
The author uses a whole variety of pseudonyms. His best known pseudonym, D. Ž. Bor, is a graphic transposition of his civil name; the letter Ž read vertically can be split into the letters V. Z.
His first works were published in samizdat form; between 1971 and 1989 he published 34 different samizdat titles, among which we can find the most beautiful books of the Czech “underground”.
After 1989 he started working for Trigon publishers, which he manages today. They have produced more than 150 titles. Among them is a linked series of texts enabling the study of “traditional esotericism”.
The covers of selected copies are decorated with unique works of art. The binding of the ordinary editions are often marked with the characteristic emblem of the uroboros snake.
Bor has published four collections of poetry: Velká denní hudba, 1963, and with Trigon publishers Zadrhlo zahrdlo, 1996, Klonování času, 2005 and Plankty, 2009. In 2005 Klonování času was nominated for the State Prize for Literature.
Bor is also the author of a range of essays, specialist publications, meditations and short stories. His esoteric articles are published in the magazine Logos and his literary texts in the magazines Analogon and Tvar.
