Summer of Caprice, a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the complexities of the text, which is characterized by a playful narrative and an exceptional mastery of language, and its profound cultural context, it is rendered here in English that beautifully captures Vladislav Vancura s experimental style or, as the author himself called it, his poetism in prose. Mixing the archaic with the innovative, raw colloquialisms with biblical quotations, Summer of Caprice...
Summer of Caprice, a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commo...
Rozmarne leto je humoristicka novela ceskeho spisovatele Vladislava Vancury z roku 1926. Cela novela se odehrava v Krokovych Varech na rece Orsi behem tri dnu chladneho cervna. Dej zacina v Antoninovych laznich, kdy behem rozpravy tri pratel (krom Antonina jeste kanovnik a major) se objevi potulny kouzelnik Arnostek, ktery je par triky pozve na vecerni predstaveni.
Rozmarne leto je humoristicka novela ceskeho spisovatele Vladislava Vancury z roku 1926. Cela novela se odehrava v Krokovych Varech na rece Orsi behem...
Marketa Lazarova is a Czech historical novel by Vladislav Vancura. The story takes place in an indeterminate time during the Middle Ages, and tells the story of a daughter of a feudal lord who is kidnapped by neighbouring robber knights and becomes a mistress of one of them.
Marketa Lazarova is a Czech historical novel by Vladislav Vancura. The story takes place in an indeterminate time during the Middle Ages, and tells th...
