Pražský slabikář - Od Kafky k Havlovi a zpět - CDmp3 (Čte Igor Bareš a Jan Vondráček)

Hrabal said it for everyone: Prague has a miracle for every day. The renowned Polish Bohemist cannot stop admiring our capital city – and being amazed. According to him, the multicultural magic of Prague, which has fascinated poets like Angelo Ripellino and Peter Demetz, has fully manifested in art since 1913, when the shadow of the melancholic Kafka began to wander here, followed by the tempestuous Hašek. The intricate paths of local literature continue with the misfortune of the world’s Čapek, the confusion of the intellectual left, the departure of Peroutka, Škvorecký, and the silencing of other authors "in liquidation" all the way to the struggles over the moral essence of Hrabal's or Kundera's works. However, Kaczorowski's "primer for adults" does not merely present readable chapters from the history of modern Czech literature to Polish readers who want to know more than just beer; it offers a miraculous refreshment of memory for us as well. After all, no one is a prophet in their own land. Especially in the belly of Europe, which has gone through many absurdities and frustrations in the last hundred neuralgic years. Among the creators of the Polish school of literary reportage, which now eagerly comments on the Czech buzz, Kaczorowski is the kindest observer. He adores Prague. He even claims: if it didn't exist, we would have to invent it. interpreter: Igor...