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Dreams and axes
Moments banal at first sight, but fateful at the second
What did Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík fight about at Christmas 1941? Did Josef Štemberka, the parish priest of Lidice, look forward to summer in 1942? Did Edvard Beneš know how to build a snowman? Why did Marta Gottwald tear her black stockings before her husband's funeral? Who was Archbishop Josef Beran watching from the window of the Roželov Chateau? What did engineer Zeman spill on his pants while watching the Spartacus?
There are moments that can be wounded like a thorn. It is as if in them time stopped for a moment only to suddenly start running much faster and history was able to release all its accumulated power through them.
Jiří Padevět, a two-time Magnesia Litera Award winner, has long since proved that he knows how to handle such moments and human stories and breathe life back into them in his stories. Now comes a new book full of seemingly mundane micro-stories that precede the watershed events familiar from twentieth-century textbooks.
They wrote about the book Dreams and Axes
"History was not written by a third party, we wrote it, and Jiří Padevet managed to remind us of that. Without unnecessary melodrama and yet, at least according to historians, with a proper historical value. "
Monika Zavřelová, iDNES.cz
Jiří Padevet
He is a writer, bookseller and publisher. He is the author of a number of historical guides, such as Guide to Protectorate Prague (2013), The Bloody Finale (2015) and The Bloody Summer of 1945 (2016), and books of short prose Notes on History (2014) and Spikes and Nooses (2018). On the internet television Stream.cz, he presents the programme Blood Years; takes the audience to places associated with Nazi and communist tyranny. He is the winner of the Magnesia Litera Award for Book of the Year and for non-fiction.
Vanda Hybnerová
Daughter of mime and theatre teacher Boris Hybner. After studying photography at the graphic design school, she studied acting at the DAMU in Prague. She has been a member of the Labyrinth Theatre and has guest-starred across other theatres, for example at the Vinohrady Theatre, at the National Theatre, at the Drama Club, at the Butcher's Theatre, at the Palmovka Theatre, at the Švandovo Theatre and the Theatre in Celetná. He currently works at the Comedy Theatre. In 2005 she was nominated for the Alfred Radok Award for the role of Petra in Fassbinder's production of Petra von Kant's play Bitter Tears. A year before this nomination, she won the Thalia Award for Best Actress for her performance as Catherine in the production of Proof at the Řeznická Theatre. He appears regularly on the television screen in several series, most recently Krejz.
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Délka
04:19:36
Velikost 128 kbps
231 MB
Autor
Jiří Padevět
Interpret
Vanda Hybnerová
Rok vydání
2019
Délka
04:19:36
Velikost 128 kbps
231 MB
Autor
Jiří Padevět
Interpret
Vanda Hybnerová
Rok vydání
2019
Kategorie
Czech literature, History, Nonfiction and journalism, Short stories
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