The death of beautiful deer

-

Smrt krásných srnců - a collection of short stories by the Czechoslovak writer Oty Pavl from 1971. He wrote as a form of therapy after the author of the psychiatric findings. Berounka - one of the heroes of the work

The collection is strictly autobiographical, created from memories of the author's childhood and youth, both before, during and after the Second World War. Pavel's experiences with the humor of the situation, colorful fantasy and grotesque deformation. Eight story-telling chapters make up the narrator, as well as his family, especially the coveted father, Leon Popper, who was an agent selling household appliances, mainly vacuum cleaners of the Swedish brand Electrolux. This kind of Jewish Don Quixote, depending on the tragic or humorous situation, funny, or great spirit. The tragic fates of the Pavl family are described and the harm they have suffered from the Nazis. The Bohemian character is a unique character of the novel, because the father of the author, many of his friends, and finally he himself was an avid angler. Long descriptions of struggles in fishing, poaching and Czech cuisine are the long and exhausting examples of the struggle. Particularly beautiful descriptions refer to the Berounka valley, the forests of Karlštejn and the Czech Republic. There are also Prague, Buštěhrad and Kročehlavy. The Lidic tragedy is mentioned.

The first Polish edition took place in 1976 (in the PIW series of Contemporary World Prose). Second in 1978 (PIW). In the same year it was recorded on cassette tapes for the blind. Teatr im. Jan Kochanowski in Opole staged a monodrama with the same title (by Jan Feusette). The third Polish edition saw the light in 1988 (Silesia). Karel Kachyňa made the Golden Eagle episodes on the theme of short stories in 1979, and in 1987, under the same name as Pavl's book. Bibliography

wiki

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pupo Román

-
José René "Pupo" Román Fernández (died 1961) - Dominican general. Curriculum vitae In the Dominican history, when the dictatorial president Rafael Leónidas Trujillo was in power, Roman was his niece's husband and "third person in the state" (Trujillo and SIM Arturo Espaillata). He was the Minister of Armed Forces, a close associate of Trujillo, which did not prevent him from accepting Trujillo's murder in 1961 from the American consul in the Dominican Republic, Henry Dearborn. He led to the murder of Rafael Trujillo on May 30, 1961, but he could not use this to overthrow his followers. He failed to arrest them along with Trujillo's sons such as Ramfis. Ultimately, the conspiracy ended with the conspirators' defeat when Zacarias - chauffeur Trujillo - survived the presidential bombardment and handed over the drafts of the bombers and Arturo Espaillat informed Roman about the death of the commander - at the sight of Arturo Espaillata Roman revealed ...
Read more

Myrmex Indikos

-
Myrmex Indikos, pol. Indian ant - an alleged species of gigantic ants (according to Herodot's description, larger than foxes, but smaller than dogs). The earliest mention of these creatures is dated to the fifth century BC, and its author is Herodotus. According to her, these ants inhabited the deserts of Persia and India and extracted gold from their sands. Several such creatures were kept in the residence of the King of Persia. Gold was to be obtained by caravans made up of several camels in the heat of the day, when the ants were protected underground. You had to do it quickly, because the ants sensed the smell of people and went on the pursuit, and they were deadly dangerous. This story is confirmed by the next accounts: Nearchos, one of the army officers of Alexander Macedoński, and Megastenes - a historian and traveler. The fragment of the Megasthenes (IV-III century BC) preserved in fragments can be seen in the underground mines at the foot of the mountains on the easte...
Read more

Names of streets and squares

-
The names of the streets and squares were originally of a topographical nature, that is, they informed about: Researchers propose two names for these toponyms - urban or plateonimy. S. Urbańczyk points out that the older names were spontaneously formed and sprouted in the daily lives of the inhabitants of the place. The information contained herein was related to the characteristics of the place (eg appearance), important road directions (geographic orientation) or values, functions and economic meanings called places / objects in the settlement for the inhabitants' lives. Former names are protected by law, but are often not respected by managers of the municipality, county or province. Currently the names of streets and squares are given by the commune authorities, county governors or voivodships. There is a tendency to use commemorative names, ie to commemorate deserving people and important events (eg Zygmunt August Street, 3. Maja Street). The names of the districts are ...
Read more