Páni mají radši blondýnky - CDmp3 (Čte Alena Vránová)

Uncover the secret of why gentlemen choose... well, you know who!

"Kissing a hand may do wonders for a girl, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever," muses Lorelei Lee, the heroine of Anita Loos's legendary humorous book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which has entertained readers for an entire century. Her film counterpart, Marilyn Monroe, sings this in the timeless adaptation of the same name, which inadvertently earned her the nickname 'dumb blonde.' The outspoken young lady from an American backwater, determined to get rich at all costs, exploits wealthy and vain older men. She contrasts her career as a gold digger with the fate of her 'incorrigible' friend Dorothy, who prefers feelings over the pursuit of millionaires. The literary work was admired by the author's famous contemporaries such as Francis Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and William Faulkner.

Through Lorelei's perspective on the world and her direct way of expressing herself, the author depicted the carefree hedonism of the Jazz Age, complete with its seductions, gangsterism, and false courtliness. She deliberately chose colloquial language full of grammatical errors to emphasize the heroine's lack of education and naivety, which contrasts with her cunning and calculating nature. Just as...