Ladislav Klima (1878-1928) was born in the western Bohemian town of Domazlice. He settled in Prague where he wrote his first work in 1904, a volume of philosophy. While only part of Klima's oeuvre was published during his lifetime, numerous manuscripts were edited and collected posthumously. And though his writing was marginalized and suppressed by the Communist regime for many years, it still managed to inspire a a generation of underground artists and dissident intellectuals with its vision of one's innate ability to achieve inner freedom through the pursuit of spiritual sovereignty.