Sophiina volba - 3 CDmp3 (Čte Martin Stránský)

She could never escape the suffocating awareness that there was a time in her life when she played the role of a participant in a planned crime. In a Brooklyn boarding house in the summer of 1947, nothing suggests that civilization has yet recovered from the tragedy inflicted upon it by the greatest war in history. The vulgar Nathan is sinking deeper into the clutches of paranoia, while his mistress Sophie is tormented by the experiences she endured as a Polish Catholic in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where sadistic SS officers forced her into a fateful decision. What will their neighbor Stingo, who is working on his debut novel in the inn and awakening from the naivety of youth, learn about their pathological relationship and the horrors of the Holocaust? Is it even possible to live normally after Auschwitz, to laugh, to believe in a higher good, or to write poetry? And how can one overcome the moral dilemmas spawned by Evil, which did not come from above but is born in our world and is the responsibility of specific people? Based on the book that, according to Le Monde, ranks among the hundred most significant novels of the 20th century, director Alan J. Pakula made a film of the same name in 1982 starring Meryl Streep (Sophie; awarded an Oscar for her role), Kevin Kline (Nathan), and Peter...