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Jirotka Zdenek - Saturnin Second Edition - Hardcover
Jirotka Zdenek - Saturnin Second Edition - Hardcover
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Description: A new edition of a classic of Czech literature and literary comedy. Upon its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a bestseller. This is entirely appropriate for while Saturnin draws on a tradition of Czech comedy and authors such as J. Ha ek K. Capek and K. Pol cek it was also clearly influenced by the English masters Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse. Saturnin is the story of a young man in love and his faithful servant Saturnin who upsets the peaceful rhythm of his master's domestic arrangements and turns his life inside out. He lures him into an exotic world where he is forced to live dangerously and he shows him how to cope with any situation. Saturnin lays bare the weaknesses of others and compels them to disclose their true nature he is a subversive servant. Written at a time when Czechoslovakia was deep in the grip of the Nazi occupation Saturnin showed how one form of resistance was to put the world created by invasion out of your mind and create another. However so recognizably Czech was that other that its popularity did not diminish with the end of the war or indeed with the end of the forty years of communism that followed the war's end. The book has been adapted for radio and television produced as a film and has a regular place in the repertoire of the Czech stage.
Title: Saturnin Second Edition
Author(s): Jirotka Zdenek, Adolf Born
Publisher: Karolinum Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy Czech Republic
Barcode: 9788024650746
Pages: 254 Pages, 16 Color Plates
Publication Date: 9/30/2024
Series: Modern Czech Classics
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
Description: A new edition of a classic of Czech literature and literary comedy. Upon its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a bestseller. This is entirely appropriate for while Saturnin draws on a tradition of Czech comedy and authors such as J. Ha ek K. Capek and K. Pol cek it was also clearly influenced by the English masters Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse. Saturnin is the story of a young man in love and his faithful servant Saturnin who upsets the peaceful rhythm of his master's domestic arrangements and turns his life inside out. He lures him into an exotic world where he is forced to live dangerously and he shows him how to cope with any situation. Saturnin lays bare the weaknesses of others and compels them to disclose their true nature he is a subversive servant. Written at a time when Czechoslovakia was deep in the grip of the Nazi occupation Saturnin showed how one form of resistance was to put the world created by invasion out of your mind and create another. However so recognizably Czech was that other that its popularity did not diminish with the end of the war or indeed with the end of the forty years of communism that followed the war's end. The book has been adapted for radio and television produced as a film and has a regular place in the repertoire of the Czech stage.
Title: Saturnin Second Edition
Author(s): Jirotka Zdenek, Adolf Born
Publisher: Karolinum Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy Czech Republic
Barcode: 9788024650746
Pages: 254 Pages, 16 Color Plates
Publication Date: 9/30/2024
Series: Modern Czech Classics
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
