Prima sezóna - CDmp3 (Čte Jan Meduna)

He would like to live bittersweetly like in the blues, but his father and the regime are against it... ***** Barely a month has passed since the war year 194*, but Danny Smiřický, a septuagenarian from Kostelec, senses that some amusement is on the horizon. Although he is once again facing a retake in math, he is rocking the tenor in the band and has always excelled in essays, so this year he will finally charm some willing soul. Or maybe not. The six love troubles of the charming guy with a reputation as a womanizer, which he undeservedly earned through interest in 23 local beauties – currently Irena, Marie, Krista, and Alena, not to mention the mysterious Miss Weber – create a dismal book of his sexual pursuits. True, Danny is rather a fickle bumblebee in feelings, but alongside his panicked worries, he has a gift for improvisation. And bad luck. Fate always tricks him, or his date is mischievously thwarted by an urgent anti-state task. The atmosphere in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia does not allow boys to experience their tender years with a full dose of Šrámek's sweetness and even surpasses the sulking fathers defending the honor of girls. The Nazis are currently just dulling the censorship of Danny's band's songs, but carefree youth is definitively gone under the watch of the Reich... In a poetic segment subtitled A Text on the Most Important Things in Life, Škvorecký comments on the anger of history with...