Honzlová - CDmp3 (Čte Denisa Barešová, Pavel Soukup)

She sings her daisy protest song. Against the dictatorship of the proletariat outside the windows. ***** July of 195* flooded even the Prague arch of the Vltava near the statue of Stalin with heat, but twenty-one-year-old Jana Honzlová is not enjoying the summer. The rest of the State Ensemble of Songs and Dances Sedmikrása, where she had been singing to the world about better tomorrows, has gone off to socialize in Finland with the bigwigs and the secret police, while she is stuck in the office waiting for a downpour. She suspects that the so-called people's democratic regime will settle accounts with her for the bluntness with which she approached the building of socialism. Honesty is not in vogue at that time, and those who do not keep in step with the comrades are going against them, and a stick will always be found for them – unless they sign in time. Especially if it concerns a girl from a family of expropriated entrepreneurs, whose cadre profile is not improved by either a relative who fled abroad or a political prisoner from the camp, let alone a beaten mother of a lineage that often has nothing to eat. The girl from the dilapidated tenement house in Karlín could tell the bigwigs from the Central Committee what a properly malnourished proletarian is. She feels firsthand that fate has thrust her into a crazy place at a miserable time, yet the muse of Josef Škvorecký brilliantly depicts her will to remain herself: despite helplessness, betrayal, and tragedy. ***** Exceptional...