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- 2016-10-15
- ISBN
- 9788024632889
- EAN
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- Book Title
- Saturnin
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Publisher
- Karolinum Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Satire, Humorous / General
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 9.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected--if temporary--reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation. In the years since, the novel has been hailed as a classic of Czech literature, and this translation makes it available to English-language readers for the first time--which is entirely appropriate, for author Zdenek Jirotka clearly modeled his light comedy on the English masters Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse. The novel's main character, Saturnin, a "gentleman's gentleman" who obviously owes a debt to Wodehouse's beloved Jeeves, wages a constant battle to protect his master from romantic disaster and intrusive relatives, such as Aunt Catherine, the "Prancing Dictionary of Slavic Proverbs." Saturnin will warm the heart of any fan of literary comedy.
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Karolinum Press
ISBN-10
8024632888
ISBN-13
9788024632889
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Book Title
Saturnin
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Satire, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
9.3 Oz
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Pg5039.2.I7
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Written at a time of when Czechoslovakia was deep in the grip of the Nazi occupation: One form of resistance was to put the world created by invasion out of your mind and create another. Was it, perhaps, a Woodhousian influence--a reluctance to acknowledge the evil of the outside world?, Saturnin . . . has a delicious dry humor and an imaginative flair that makes it much more than just the 'Czech Jeeves.' . . . The writing is rich in homespun wisdom and casual asides that take on a life of their own, leading the reader up charming byways of irrelevance. . . . There are a surprising number of belly-laughs for a novel that is more than half a century old. . . . This first English translation is long overdue., "At a time when Czechoslovakia was deep in the grip of the Nazi occupation, one form of resistance was to put the world created by invasion out of your mind and create another. Was it, perhaps, a Wodehousian influence-a reluctance to acknowledge the evil of the outside world?"-Elin Murphy, Wooster Sauce, the Journal of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, "A delicious dry humour and an imaginative flair that makes it much more than just the 'Czech Jeeves.' Owing more to Jerome K. Jerome than to P. G. Wodehouse, the writing is rich in homespun wisdom and casual asides that take on a life of their own, leading the reader up charming byways of irrelevance. . . . A surprising number of belly-laughs for a novel that is more than half a century old."-Adam Preston, Times Literary Supplement
Copyright Date
2016
Dewey Decimal
891.8635
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Modern Czech Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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